Claire Evans

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Learn About The Kansas Monkey That Helped Pave The Way To Space

By Josh Boston, Claire Evans | July 16, 2019

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy in Florida en route to the historic moon landing. It would not be much of a stretch to say the three astronauts on board owed their good fortune, in part, to a furry mammal that hailed from a town only about 160 miles southwest…

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