San Diego Space Society

SDASM Preserves the Voices of History

Posted by Brent Bernasconi in News on July 12, 2009

The San Diego Air & Space Museum has joined with five other local museums on a oral history project to record the rich aerospace history of San Diego, the “Air Capital of the West.” Volunteers will interview and preserve the stories of the men and women who contributed to San Diego’s aerospace history.

Nearly 500 interviews have been completed by the six institutions. These interviews along with photographs and other memorabilia will be used to create a traveling exhibit to be displayed in local libraries, schools, airports, and universities. The interviews will also be available through SDASM’s new online library catalog AEROCat.

As part of this project, SDASM’s Library and Archives interviewed the former Director of the Kennedy Space Center, Lee Scherer. You can see a picture of Lee in front of the Apollo 9 capsule here.

To read the full press release on the oral history project, click here.