Before Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon, they came to Chapel Hill to study the stars

Posted Jul 23, 2018
Every July 20, the world rediscovers the thrill of Apollo 11, watching grainy footage of Neil Armstrong sinking his boot into moon dust — the first human to touch Earth’s “lonely satellite.” But on the moon landing’s 49th anniversary, it bears recalling that both Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin learned to navigate the stars at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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