NASA on the Scouts centenary

This year, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are celebrating their centenary and NASA is joining in with the annual grand Jamboree which coincides with this anniversary by supplying travelling exhibits. It is important to realise that around 180 of the American agency’s astronauts were scouts or involved in this movement, notably Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two men on the Moon, and even Steven Lindsey, the commander of the next space shuttle mission (STS-133).

NASA Press Release

Published 29 July 2010

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