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Suits rebooted
Thursday, August 20, 2015 10:28
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With almost 9,500 backers donating nearly $720,000, the Smithsonian’s first Kickstarter campaign has succeeded at funding not just the conservation and display of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit worn on the moon, which was the crowd-funding effort’s original goal, but also Alan Shepard’s silver Mercury spacesuit that he wore on the first American crewed spaceflight. For their pledges, backers of the “Reboot the Suit” campaign will be updated about the conservation work as it progresses.
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Source: http://www.collectspace.com/index.html#0820151205
