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Lunar Globe

Rand McNally

Not on view

Throughout the 1960s, publishers used photographs of the moon captured by Soviet and American missions as the basis for new lunar globes. This American globe is based on NASA photographs, published in 1969 shortly before the launch of Apollo 11.

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