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    Mapping the moon

    Posted on July 19, 2019

    Josh Noland worked for 13 years with the Army Map Service of the U.S. Corps of Engineer. During the 1960s, he and many others within the agency worked to map 18 potential landing sites on the moon for NASA’s Apollo program.

    Editor’s Note: This week people around the world are looking both up to the stars and back in time as we recognize the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on Saturday, July 20. One of the people involved in the historic mission to send men to the moon was local musician Josh Noland, whom Perry Newspapers interviewed in 2013 about his work to map locations on the moon’s surface in preparation for the Apollo missions. To honor both his accomplishments, as well as all those who took part in the Apollo program, we are reprinting that article today.

    By MARK VIOLA / Staff writer

    On July 20, 1969, Josh Noland, like millions of others around the world, sat in his living room to watch man’s first footstep on the moon.

    On television, CBS correspondent Walter Cronkite narrated the unfolding events taking place thousands of miles away.

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