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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 20 > Before the moon, NASA came here

Before the moon, NASA came here

Locations from Lava Butte to McKenzie Pass served as training ground for astronauts starting in the mid-1960s

By Hillary Borrud / The Bulletin
July 20, 2009

For residents or tourists who have gazed upon Central Oregon’s cinder cones and lava fields and seen a moonscape, they were not alone.

NASA recognized the similarity, too, and the astronauts who would eventually take “one giant leap for mankind” in the first....

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