The beginning and end of an era:

More than five decades ago President John F. Kennedy made the dramatic statement that “we choose to go to the moon” and those few words committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon.  On July 8^th the space shuttle Atlantis will lift off on the final flight of the shuttle program and the end of the space program as we have known it.

A new exhibit, “The History Human Space Travel,” is open next door to the Community Virtual Library Reference area. Displays cover each stage of the program, tracing both the successes and failures through truly amazing photographs that are just a few of the hundreds to be found in the NASA Image Archives.

At 5:00pm on July 8^th there will be a party held at The History Human Space Travel exhibit with dancing, freebies and playing music we were listening to year by year from the first manned Mercury Mission in 1961 to the present launch of the Atlantis and the end of an era.