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Kids explore spacecraft at Cradle of Aviation Museum
The Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City is hosting "Fly Me to the Moon" week, which ends Dec. 31, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17, the last of the missions to send men to the moon. Videojournalist: Brittany Wait (Dec. 28, 2012) (December 28, 2012 8:19 PM)
Nicholas O’Leary dreams of one day becoming an astronaut.
So it wasn’t a surprise that the 8-year-old and his brother Matthew, 3, were among the hundreds of children on Friday to explore airplanes and spacecraft at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.
“When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut,” said Nicholas, of East Meadow. “I want to be just like Neil Armstrong. He was a...
