The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, also celebrated big on this 50th anniversary with live remote broadcasts from across the country, including from Wapakoneta on Friday.
The NASA Network with the help of our very own Ty Batemon broadcasting around the world with stories and statistics about that epic day in July of 1969. Planning for the live broadcast started several years ago.
"We've been talking to the museum staff and Ohio History Connection for about five years and then over a year of intense planning to pull it together. The TV production, we've been intense planning that for three, four months, we've done how we've been out here before for sight visits to look at all the details, looking at sight lines for satellites, all those types of things. It's been a big production but it's all well worth it," explained David DeFelice, team lead for NASA community relations.
