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    Actor Tom Hanks (fourth from left), producer and narrator of the IMAX movie, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, posed at the movie's September 21 premiere with astronauts from the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.

    In the National Air and Space Museum's Early Flight gallery are, front row, from left, Carl Walz (Space Shuttle); Dave Scott (Apollo 15); Gene Cernan (Apollo 17); Hanks; Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11); Jim Lovell (portrayed by Hanks in the movie, Apollo 13); Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17); and T.K. Mattingly (Apollo 16). Back row, from left, Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7); Al Worden (Apollo 15); and Charlie Duke (Apollo 16).

  • Group of men dressed in suits for an event pose for a photograph inside the Museum.

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2005

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