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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GAL206_221014_006.JPG: Destination Moon
2. GAL206_221014_009.JPG: Why Did America Stop Going to the Moon?
3. GAL206_221014_011.JPG: Apollo 15 EVA, 1971 Pierre Mion James Irwin stands in the command module hatch as the Moon recedes in the background. Irwin is assisting Alfred Worden (out of view in front), who is retrieving the film canisters from the mapping and panoramic cameras in the service module.
4. GAL206_221014_029.JPG: Imaginary Moon Flights
5. GAL206_221014_032.JPG: Apollo 11 Commemorative Coin In 2019, the US Mint celebrated and honored the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing no the Moon through its Commemorative Coin Program. Proceeds from this program helped support the Destination Moon exhibition.
6. GAL206_221014_037.JPG: Fantasies of Lunar Travel
7. GAL206_221014_038.JPG: The Moon in Mythology and Folklore
8. GAL206_221014_041.JPG: The Moon Becomes a Place
9. GAL206_221014_044.JPG: The First Moon Movie
10. GAL206_221014_048.JPG: Realistic Science Fiction -- and Science Fact
11. GAL206_221014_050.JPG: Jules Verne's Moon Voyage
12. GAL206_221014_052.JPG: The cover of the first American translation of Verne's books
13. GAL206_221014_055.JPG: Visions of Spaceflight
14. GAL206_221014_057.JPG: The Goddard Moon Flap In 1920, the Smithsonian Institution, a support of Robert Goddard's work, published his theoretical treatise, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. It proposed using flash powder to demonstrate that a rocket had hit the Moon. Goddard's idea produced an unexpected news sensation. Newspapers around the world ran stories about how the American professor wanted to hit the Moon or travel there.
15. GAL206_221014_067.JPG: A hearing-impaired school teacher in central Russia, Konstantin Tsiolkovskii, was the first to work out the theory of rocketry and spaceflight. He published his ideas in science fiction stories in the 1890s and scientific articles in 1903 and 1911.
16. GAL206_221014_072.JPG: Goddard Flash Powder Experiment ox Robert Goddard experimented with magnesium flash powder to determine how much would be needed to see a rocket hit the Moon. In 1916, his assistants set off flash powder bulbs in this box at night, while Goddard observed from a distance. Goddard calculated that 2.6 pounds (1.2 kilograms) of flash powder would make the rocket "just visible," and 13.8 pounds (6.2 kilograms) would be "strikingly visible" on the side of the Moon that was in night.
17. GAL206_221014_074.JPG: Space Enthusiasm Grows
18. GAL206_221014_075.JPG: The First Moon Race
19. GAL206_221014_077.JPG: Soviets Reach the Moon First
20. GAL206_221014_079.JPG: America's First Moon Projects
21. GAL206_221014_087.JPG: Selling the Moon 1945-1957
22. GAL206_221014_094.JPG: The Disney TV Series
23. GAL206_221014_096.JPG: Chesley Bonestell Lunar Landscape, 1957 On March 28, 1957, six months before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Boston Museum of Science unveiled this huge mural in the lobby of its Charles Hayden Planetarium. Bonestell portrayed the Moon as everyone expected it to be: with sharp peaks, jagged canyons, and steep crater walls. In 1970, the museum took the mural down after pictures from the Moon showed that the constant rain of meteorites and space dust rounded off lunar hills and mountains. The Smithsonian acquired the mural in 1976 and restored it for this exhibition.
24. GAL206_221014_106.JPG: Pioneer Human Spaceflight and the Moon Race
25. GAL206_221014_108.JPG: Why send animals into space?
26. GAL206_221014_110.JPG: Mercury Primate Capsule
27. GAL206_221014_113.JPG: Yuri Gagarin, 2016 Aleksei Dmietrievitch Leonov
28. GAL206_221014_116.JPG: Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
29. GAL206_221014_118.JPG: Vostok: Cosmonauts in Orbit
30. GAL206_221014_129.JPG: Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson Pioneering Aerospace Mathematician
31. GAL206_221014_133.JPG: The Moon Decision
32. GAL206_221014_134.JPG: Kennedy and the Apollo Program
33. GAL206_221014_136.JPG: First American in Space
34. GAL206_221014_138.JPG: Ted Wilbur Alan B. Shepard, Jr., 1970
35. GAL206_221014_144.JPG: How to Go to the Moon
36. GAL206_221014_146.JPG: Gemini: Preparing for Apollo
37. GAL206_221014_155.JPG: Made in the USA
38. GAL206_221014_157.JPG: Mobilizing the Nation
39. GAL206_221014_158.JPG: African Americans on the Space Coast
40. GAL206_221014_161.JPG: Cape Canaveral Florida's "Space Coast"
41. GAL206_221014_165.JPG: Women of Apollo
42. GAL206_221014_167.JPG: The Impact on the South
43. GAL206_221014_173.JPG: A Massive Increase in Rocket Power
44. GAL206_221014_174.JPG: Rocket Power
45. GAL206_221014_178.JPG: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
46. GAL206_221014_182.JPG: First Spacesuit on the Moon
47. GAL206_221014_183.JPG: This section is generously sponsored by Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Conservation, digitization, and display of the Armstrong spacesuit was made possible by the backers of the "Reboot the Suit" Kickstarter campaign.
48. GAL206_221014_205.JPG: Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.
49. GAL206_221014_206.JPG: Humans Reach the Moon
50. GAL206_221014_222.JPG: Outfitting and Guiding the Astronauts
51. GAL206_221014_226.JPG: Spacesuit Repair Kit Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin could have made minor repairs to their lunar spacesuits with this kit. It contains cloth tape, exterior patches, bladder sealant material, and extra gaskets.
52. GAL206_221014_230.JPG: Survival Kit Apollo 11 Each Apollo command module had two rucksacks that provided survival equipment for up to 48 hours after landing. This kit includes water containers, a radio beacon with a spare battery, sunglasses, desalter chemicals and kit, survival lights, a machete, and sunscreen.
53. GAL206_221014_233.JPG: Lunar Module Medical Kit Apollo 11 Along with minor first aid supplies, this kit held painkillers, stimulants, aspirin, decongestants, antidiarrheal medicine, nose drops, and a syringe with an opioid pain medication. Several items are missing from this kit.
54. GAL206_221014_237.JPG: Command Module Medical Kit Apollo 11 This kit held motion sickness and pain suppression injectors, first aid ointment, eye drops, nasal sprays, bandages, and an oral thermometer. It also help a variety of pills: antibiotics, antinausea and antidiarrheal medicine, stimulants, painkillers, decongestants, aspirin, and sleeping aids.
55. GAL206_221014_239.JPG: Preparing for the Worst
56. GAL206_221014_246.JPG: 4 Extravehicular Glove
57. GAL206_221014_249.JPG: Developing a Lunar Suit
58. GAL206_221014_251.JPG: Norman Rockwell Longest Step, 1965 Astronauts John Young (left) and Gus Grissom suit up for their Gemini 3 mission on March 23, 1965. The technicians are making the final adjustments. The Gemini G3C suits were modified aviation pressure suits.
59. GAL206_221014_272.JPG: Earthrise Apollo 8 astronauts took this historic photo on December 24, 1968, as they orbited the Moon, the first humans to do so. As soon as NASA released it, the picture became world famous. It beautifully captures the Earth as an "oasis" in the vastness of space, as crewmember James Lovell put it.
60. GAL206_221014_284.JPG: Houston, 1971 Mitchell Jameson This painting depicts the Mission Operations Control Room as seen from the glassed-off VIP seating area, probably during Apollo 15 in 1971. The main screen shows the orbital track of the command module and an icon for the lunar module's location. A TV display (upper right) shows the helmet of an astronaut on the lunar surface.
61. GAL206_221014_285.JPG: The Origins of Mission Control
62. GAL206_221014_295.JPG: Houston, 1971 Mitchell Jameson This painting depicts the Mission Operations Control Room as seen from the glassed-off VIP seating area, probably during Apollo 15 in 1971. The main screen shows the orbital track of the command module and an icon for the lunar module's location. A TV display (upper right) shows the helmet of an astronaut on the lunar surface.
63. GAL206_221014_311.JPG: Houston, we've had a problem
64. GAL206_221014_319.JPG: Eugene F. Kranz Master Flight Director
65. GAL206_221014_333.JPG: What Was Left on the Moon? Armstrong's life-support backpack is still on the surface, along with his lunar overshoes which made the historic first footprints. An hour or two after their walk, Armstrong and Aldrin opened the hatch and discarded these items, and others, to reduce weight for their launch the next day.
66. GAL206_221014_337.JPG: Conserving Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
67. GAL206_221014_338.JPG: Spacesuits Are Surprisingly Fragile
68. GAL206_221014_345.JPG: F-1 Engine Parts from Apollo 11 These objects are actual pieces of the F-1 engines that powered the Apollo 11 astronauts to the first Moon landing. The impact on the Atlantic Ocean destroyed the discarded Saturn V first stage. These pieces survived relatively intact. Bezos Expeditions recovered these objects from the ocean floor in 2013. They were conserved at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.
69. GAL206_221014_353.JPG: Home Sweet Home, 1983 Alan Bean Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean devoted his post-NASA career to painting. Here he shows Pete Conrad unpacking equipment from their lander, Intrepid. To the right is a large unfolding antenna for communicating with Earth.
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Description of Subject Matter: Destination Moon
October 14, 2022 – Permanent
Building on the Museum’s unrivaled collection of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo artifacts, Destination Moon is a blockbuster exhibition. The gallery shows how an extraordinary combination of motivations, resources, and technologies made it possible for humans to walk on the Moon—and how and why we are going back today.
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