IIA 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 60 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 11, 2019 
Received 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Requesting the Secretary of the Interior to authorize unique 
and one-time arrangements for displays on the National 
Mall and the Washington Monument during the period 
beginning on July 16, 2019 and ending on July 20, 
2019. 
Whereas Congress enacted the Act of August 12, 1946 (60 
Stat. 997; ch. 955, 1), to establish a National 
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Air Museum, later known as the Smithsonian’s National 
Air and Space Museum (NASM), to commemorate and 
memorialize the American story of human flight in the 
atmosphere and in outer space; 
Whereas Congress enacted the Act of July 29, 1958 (com-
monly known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act) 
(72 Stat. 426–438; 42 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), to declare 
a policy of peaceful space activities designed for the ben-
efit of humankind and to establish the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration (NASA); 
Whereas in July of 1960, NASA announced the creation of 
the Apollo Program, the Nation’s first orchestrated ini-
tiative to ferry humankind out of Earth’s orbit and to the 
Moon; 
Whereas on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission succeeded 
in landing the spacecraft Eagle on the surface of the 
Moon, piloted by two American astronauts, the first hu-
mans to ever make landfall on another celestial body; 
Whereas on July 20 and 21, 1969, those brave Americans be-
came the first humans to set foot on the surface of the 
Moon, forever changing Earth’s relationship with the 
heavens; 
Whereas this momentous event was watched in wonder by 
hundreds of millions of people back on Earth, including 
the hundreds of thousands of NASA civilian and military 
staff and partners who made the Apollo Program pos-
sible; 
Whereas the Apollo Program continued through December of 
1972 and spurred the greatest development of human sci-
entific and technological understanding of any decade to 
that point, leading to advances in rocketry, spaceflight, 
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avionics, telecommunications, and computers, on which 
the American public still relies today; 
Whereas the National Air and Space Museum opened on the 
American Bicentennial in July 1976 as a birthday gift to 
the country in celebration of the Nation’s highest 
achievements, under the leadership and vision of Museum 
Director, NASA astronaut, and Apollo 11 Command 
Module Pilot Michael Collins; 
Whereas NASA continues to pursue space exploration on be-
half of the American people to increase humankind’s un-
derstanding of the heavens; and 
Whereas the National Air and Space Museum continues to 
memorialize the history of American discovery and inven-
tion, and seeks to educate and inspire new generations of 
innovators and explorers to ensure that our future 
achievements in space are fully empowered by the 
achievements of the past: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That Congress— 
(1) requests the Secretary of the Interior to au-
thorize unique and one-time arrangements for the 
display of NASA and Smithsonian artifacts, digital 
content, film footage, and associated historic audio 
and imagery, in and around the vicinity of the Na-
tional Mall, including projected onto the surface of 
the Washington Monument for five nights of public 
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