Apollo 15 & the Lunar Rover Presentation by Greg Brown

Greg Brown is the Experience Coordinator at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum.

On July 20, 1972, three years to the day after Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, the Armstrong Air & Space Museum opened to much fanfare. Armstrong himself was present to help open the facility, and Tricia Nixon Cox, standing in for the President, presented moon rocks brought back to Earth from the Apollo 11 mission.

As space exploration has evolved, so have the exhibits at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum. But the focus has remained the same: to stand not only as a repository of Ohio's aeronautical history and a monument to Ohio's contribution to aviation and space exploration, but also as a tribute to Ohioan Neil Armstrong, whose "one small step for a man" was indeed a "giant leap for mankind."