Sixty years ago today the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, clearly proving
the U.S. was behind in the Space Race. But a few short years later we were clearly ahead thanks to
Bell’s Agena rocket engine, and in less than fifteen years we “put a man on the Moon and returned him safely to the earth” thanks to Bell’s Lunar Module ascent engine. Come see both world-changing rocket engines at the Niagara Aerospace Museum!