This week we visit New Hampshire! Early in World War II, the Granite State witnessed a massive expansion of critical airpower infrastructure at Grenier Field in Manchester. This base served as the key launching point for single aircraft that took the northern route to the European Theater, while also sustaining a variety of additional missions—everything from training sorties to anti-submarine patrols. The aviation Museum of New Hampshire celebrates this history. New Hampshire is also the birthplace of Alan Shepard – America’s first man in space – who later walked on the Moon in 1971 as mission commander of Apollo 14. Today, space enthusiasts can visit the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, NH, which features interactive science and engineering exhibits, including a full-sized replica of a Mercury-Redstone rocket.

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This week we are travelling to South Carolina! In February 1942, then-Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle visited Columbia Air Base to recruit the airmen who would serve as the famed Doolittle Raiders. His words were direct: “We have a mission. Can’t tell you what it’s going be. It’s very, very dangerous. We only want volunteers.” Visitors can learn more about this at the South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation in Columbia, plus the USS Yorktown at Patriot’s Point. South Carolina also serves as home to former NASA Administrator Maj Gen Charles Borden, USMC (Ret)—who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam and is a 4-time astronaut, including as commander of STS-31, which deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

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This week we travel to Maryland! It’s the birthplace of 8 astronauts and is home to the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which pioneered mission control functions early in the space race and still operates systems like the Hubble and the James Webb telescopes. Additionally, we also explore College Park Airport, where Army aviation literally first took flight under the tutelage of Wilbur Wright and subsequent aviators invented everything from cross country flying, the use of radios on aircraft, efforts to arm planes, and employ bombsights.

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