Museum Careers and the Display of Freedom 7
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Did you know? Many people who conserve aviation and space artifacts for the National Air and Space Museum have art conservation degrees. In fact, there are many different degrees you can study if you want to be in the museum field! Tune in and find out about the careers involved in conserving and displaying the nation's important air and space related objects, including the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule, the spacecraft that carried NASA astronaut Alan Shepard on the first American piloted spaceflight!
This program is made possible through the generous support of Boeing.
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