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Armstrong's Spacesuit Prepped for CT

To better preserve Neil Armstrong's spacesuit, conservation needed to see inside the suit. A CT scan was conducted in October 2014 at the National Museum of Natural History and provided an inside look into the spacesuit without harming the artifact.