So Minnesota: U of M Bell Museum & NASA space program
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The Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota has a close connection to the space program.
They have artifacts from NASA and a state of the art planetarium.
"They see the dome and immediately their eyes light up," Planetarium Manager Sally Brummel said. "They say ‘Wow, we can go so far away from Earth, pass the constellations, pass the Milky Way galaxy, and then come back to Earth’ and I frequently hear people say ‘We are so small.’"
On Christmas Eve in 1968, Apollo 8 brought the world together and gave a view of home like no human ever had. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders traveled around the moon.
"When they came around the moon and looked back at Earth and saw the Earth rising above the moon’s horizon," Brummel said.
Bell Museum.[Courtesy of the University of Minnesota ]
The image became known as Earth Rise, and the crew also read from the bible as the world watched.
"A lot of people focus on Apollo 11 landing on the moon but Apollo 8 did so many things."