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This Week In History, Library Style! Sept 22: The Moon

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Libraries are places where we connect people to information that may be useful or interesting to them. Looking at some history, and connecting it to the materials we may have in our libraries, can be a good way to convince patrons to use and enjoy all the things we provide!

This week we are looking at September 22. Of course a lot of things have happened on this date – news and the big stories are the unusual things that are going on around us. One interesting thing that has happened today in 1966: The Surveyor 2 space craft crashed onto the moon.

“This spacecraft was the second of a series designed to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and to return lunar surface photography for determining characteristics of the lunar terrain for Apollo program lunar landing missions. Besides transmitting photos, Surveyor 2 was planned to perform a ‘bounce’, to photograph underneath its own landing site. It was also equipped to return data on radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, bearing strength of the lunar surface, and spacecraft temperatures for use in the analysis of lunar surface temperatures.”

Bring this event into your library! You can set up book displays about space travel, astronomy, and scifi, build model rockets, look at digital pictures of space objects, make cheese (it doesn’t have to be green!), find maps of the moon’s surface, write a story about traveling to the moon.

Here are a few books you might add to your collection or share with your patrons – or just enjoy yourself!