teasel muir-harmony is a historian of spaceflight and the curator of the apollo collection at the smithsonian national air and space museum. her research focuses on the exploration of the moon from debates about lunar governance to the use of space flights as soft power. the topic of her award winning book operation moonglow a political history of project apollo, which was published in 2020. in addition to her work at the smithsonian, dr. meal harmony co-organizer is the space policy and history forum and teaches at georgetown university. she serves as an advisor. the television series apollo's moonshot and her first book, apollo to the moon history in 50 objects was. in 2018 and forms the basis of today's lecture. so please join me in welcoming dr. harmony. good afternoon everyone. thank you so much for coming. it's true pleasure to be here. a especially on the anniversary of the first lunar landings of this talk is perfectly timed for this topic and i, i always think anniversaries are a great opportune to to look back on it at an event and to register its significance at the time and then a

teasel muir-harmony is a historian of spaceflight and the curator of the apollo collection at the smithsonian national air and space museum. her research focuses on the exploration of the moon from debates about lunar governance to the use of space flights as soft power. the topic of her award winning book operation moonglow a political history of project apollo, which was published in 2020. in addition to her work at the smithsonian, dr. meal harmony co-organizer is the space policy and history forum and teaches at georgetown university. she serves as an advisor. the television series apollo's moonshot and her first book, apollo to the moon history in 50 objects was. in 2018 and forms the basis of today's lecture. so please join me in welcoming dr. harmony. good afternoon everyone. thank you so much for coming. it's true pleasure to be here. a especially on the anniversary of the first lunar landings of this talk is perfectly timed for this topic and i, i always think anniversaries are a great opportune to to look back on it at an event and to register its significance at the time and then a