“I think there’s a fundamental lack of interest in STEM, and the history of space is lacking. I just was shocked by that.”
Bill Zeeble / Kera News
Five of the 25 Back to Space student Amabassadors (left to right): Katie Mulry, Lance Gorton, Julianna Lenington, Anna MacLennan and Courtney Kang
From KERA:
Fifty years ago this July, Neil Armstrong’s words from the moon echoed across our globe: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The Back to Space initiative in Dallas was recently launched to rekindle popular interest in space, especially among kids — the kind the 1969 moonshot inspired.
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