Maryland's Role in the Moon Landing
Channel: Preservation Maryland
Date: 2020-05-27

The Moon landing on July 20, 1969 was the culmination of years of effort and progress toward the singular goal of putting a human on the moon. 

Every state in the union contributed to the effort and the ultimate success – including Maryland which played a critical and central role in the development of the space program and the Apollo missions.

During the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first words from the moon were first transmitted to Goddard – and then on to Mission Control in Houston. Today, the center remains a hub of communications for NASA a hive of activity for the development of tools and resources for the agency’s future interplanetary missions.

Read more: https://www.preservationmaryland.org/maryland-history-free-states-contribution-to-the-apollo-mission-moon-landings/.