The Saturn V stood 281 feet high and weighed 6.2 million pounds. On the morning of July 16, 1969, an enormous three-stage Saturn V rocket- the largest rocket ever built- stood on launch pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Florida. "20 July 1969" will show how this momentous episode in American history affected the work of the entire government and how the world reacted to Armstrong's "giant leap for all mankind." Using original documents, photographs, and video clips set in an environment reminiscent of a NASA "mission control" station, the exhibit will recreate this one historic day in the nation's history. Nowhere was this truer than in the many agencies that make up the federal government of the United States.
The events surrounding the Moon mission were recorded and noted in great detail. Culminating with Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's first step onto the Moon on July 20, 1969, the space flight, the lunar landing, and the crew's safe return to earth were seen as epochal events, worthy of intense media coverage, international celebration, and careful social analysis. This is the premise behind one of the new exhibits under development for the National Archives Experience, "20 July 1969." Millions of Americans- and millions of others around the globe- remember the summer of 1969 as the time humans first landed on the Moon. What would it be like if we could recreate a single day in our past? Not just the parts we remember, the events to which we attribute great significance, but the whole day filled with all its interacting parts. JImage: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong's words as he made his first step onto the surface of the Moon "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for all mankind."
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