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Corporate Support. Recognizing Your Generosity. By Mike Sonksen. Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn. Read More. Learn more about the positive work they're accomplishing throughout the state. By Brandy Collins. Before the space race of the s, aeronautics workers built aircraft in Downey. The small city played a key role in equipping Allied forces with planes and parts during World War II. Once NAA won the bid, its workforce ballooned and 35, workers descended on the small city.

One of those workers was Charles H. Lowry, who designed the parachute system that, at the tail end of the mission, guided the astronauts safely back to Earth. I have to get them home. Charles H. Lowry at the Columbia Memorial Space Center. And then it's a soft ride down to the water. Another engineer, Nathaniel LeVert, shares that pride.

He was working on an early satellite system for Douglas Aircraft in Southern California, when Downey called. The Space Center will be open 10am - 5pm. For more information about any of the Apollo 11 anniversary events with the Columbia Memorial Space Center, please contact us.

Cart 0. Apollo Speaker Series Beginning in May , we launched our on-going Apollo Speaker Series featuring a different guest speaker each month. Click the link below to watch past interviews:. Video Library. On July 20 -- 50 years to the day that astronauts first landed on the moon -- the space center is hosting an all-day celebration with free admission. The celebration series begins this Saturday, July 13, with the opening of a one-of-a-kind Apollo 11 exhibit that includes never-before-seen artifacts of the space program.

This exhibit features the stories of some of the thousands who worked on the historic mission here in Southern California 50 years ago and is supported by a gift from Aerojet Rocketdyne, the same Los Angeles-based company that made all of the rocket engines that set astronauts to the moon and brought them safely back home. All day, special activities will be offered related to the big lunar anniversary.

On Saturday, July 20, the actual day that astronauts landed on the moon in , the week of Apollo activities reaches a climax. The Space Center invites everyone to visit for free and dress in their best outfit from