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[i]Tuesday, the capsule traveled 13 miles to become the centerpiece of NASA's Glenn Visitor Center at its new location in the Great Lakes Science Center. The center spent about $120,000 to move the Apollo command module used to fly three astronauts to and from Skylab, America's first space station. The trip lasted about 30 minutes but took more than a year to plan. The module is a historic artifact, so the Smithsonian Institution and NASA had to approve every step. An Akron company, Thomarios, which preserved a Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, restored, then helped transport the 11-foot-high, 13-foot wide Apollo command module. Norris Brothers Co., of Cleveland, provided the rigging for the 12,800 pound module and its 1,200 pound stand. Workers tore down part of the walls in the Brookpark Road center and wrapped the module in a cotton cover, aluminum and shrink wrap before taking it out. The capsule spent Monday night in the NASA hangar at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. In the morning, a truck carried the capsule along interstates, then down East Ninth Street to its new home along Lake Erie.[/i]
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