Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
Inclusion and take that on as a special badge of honor that our staff has had special training to work with people with any type of learning disabilities, challenges or anything like that. If you see theres a need were not meeting, please let us know, because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] i spent over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry, and ill tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around Flight Controllers, directors over the last four years that ive been here. Have just been a fantastic experience for me. Many of these gentlemen, weve been involved with either planning discussions like this, or have been a part of the Mission Control that has been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually had the missions up through shuttle but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo landing and other great space flights. If you have not gotten your ticket for that, hopefully you will today. They
Moon landing. This was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark the missions 50th anniversary. Good morning and happy Lunar Landing day. [ cheers and applause ] its great to have you here. Tracy lamm we are the Visitor Center for the nasa Johnson Space center. As a nonprofit entity and smithsonian affiliate and the worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe in equity, inclusion, accessibility. And we take that on as a great badge of honor that our staff has had expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges or anything like that. If you see a need we are not meeting please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] you know, i aspen over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry. And i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around the Flight Controllers and directors over th
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