In one giant leap, mankind traveled to the Moon. With one small
step, an American astronaut made history. Neil Armstrong and his
Apollo 11 crew mate, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to
walk on the Moon in July 1969. Some mementos of that historic
landmark remain, though few are displayed to the public, said
Chris Orwoll, Cosmosphere president and CEO. Four such
artifacts, Armstrong and Aldrin's space gloves, are on exhibit
in the Apollo Gallery of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space
Center's Hall of Space Museum. But not for long, said Meredith
Miller, the museum's Collections Manager. The gloves, on loan
from the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian
Institution, will be returned to the Smithsonian when the loan
expires at the end of the year. The gloves will likely go off
display Dec. 10. "Not only were the gloves worn by two of the
most well-known astronauts in history," said Jim Remar,
Cosmosphere senior vice president, "the astronauts wore them
while making man's first steps on the surfa