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Resting places for Boeing-built moon rovers win Washington state landmark status – GeekWire
Three spots on the moon where lunar rovers lie are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission.
Apollo 17s lunar rover sits at its resting place at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. (NASA Photo)
Three spots on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission.
The thumbs-up, delivered on Friday during a virtual public hearing organized by the Washington State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, provided state landmark status to the rovers that Boeing built during the 1960s at its facilities in Kent, Wash., and that…
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