Because the space race was a Major Initiative within the cold war. Tminus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Ignition. We are in the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. I am standing in front of the morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium. Which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morgan iii is from a famous North Carolina family. Grandfather was the governor of North Carolina. John morehead iii attended carolina for undergraduate school in chemistry. Made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of Union Carbide and he became an extremely wealthy man, and he conceived of this idea, what he did as a leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the planetarium was the first one in the south. His contribution was significant. We are also the first planetarium in the world on a university campus. So he visited a planetarium in chi
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