Early astronaut training housed in Chapel Hill

Posted Apr 1, 2016
Years of training goes into becoming an astronaut, and some of the most basic training took place in North Carolina. Morehead Planetarium, on the campus of UNC, trained 62 astronauts in the early days of the space program from 1960 to 1975. Long-time NASA director Tony Jenzano said he wasn’t aware of the program’s history in the Tar Heel state. (WRAL.com)

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