Ohio City Expands Festival For 50th Anniversary Of Moon Landing
July 8, 2019 9:49AM EDT
(ONN) – Folks in a small city in western Ohio are over the moon as they get ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the day the world watched their native son take that “giant leap for mankind.”
Neil Armstrong helped put Wapakoneta on the map on July 20, 1969, when he became the first person to walk on the moon.
The late astronaut remains larger than life in the city 60 miles north of Dayton, where visitors are greeted by the space base-shaped top of the space museum named for him as they exit Interstate 75.
The city of fewer than 10,000 people has expanded its usual weekend Moon Festival to 10 days of commemorations and activities with thousands of visitors expected.
