Spotlight on NARA: Behind the scenes with NARA's exhibits staff

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The opening of the Public Vaults component of the National Archives Experience marked the completion of one of the most important assignments ever given to a small group of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees. Officials at NARA wanted visitors to begin to understand the importance of records and give them the type of 'close encounter' with the process of discovery that genealogists and others experience in NARA everyday.

Genealogical libraries, Genealogical databases and libraries

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A "Top Secret" exhibit previews the National Archives Experience

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Visitors to the "Top Secret", a computer interactive inside the new Public Vaults of the National Archives will use a novel technological innovation, "The Archives Explorer," to inspect formerly secret documents, translate codes, highlight interesting stories, view documents in context, and see them come to life. The inspiration for "Top Secret" sprang from two questions considered by NARA team.

Author: Bustard, Bruce I.
Technology application

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20 July 1969

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The National Archives has come up with a new exhibit "20 July,1969". This will display all the events pertaining to Apollo 11, including the log book for the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which chronicle's the ship's preparation for Apollo 11's Pacific ocean landing and its role in recovering the astronauts and their spacecraft.

Author: Bustard, Bruce I.
Guided missiles and space vehicles, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Military Space Vehicles, Accidents, Military spacecraft

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Subjects list: United States, Exhibitions, Archives, United States. National Archives and Records Administration
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