Crowdfunding raises $720000 to restore Neil Armstrong spacesuit
The Smithsonian's has raised USD 719,779 to restore the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore while walking on the moon.
A total of 9,477 people contributed to the online funding campaign named "Reboot the Suit." The month-long campaign surpassed its 500,000-dollar goal on July 24.
"We did not really expect to both hit our goal so quickly and also to exceed our goal so dramatically,” Yoonhyung Lee, the Smithsonian's director of digital philanthropy, told AFP. “This was a huge triumph for us."
Contributors to the crowdfunding campaign were thanked with various awards such as a NASA space mission patch and a printed 3D copy of Armstrong's space glove.
The Smithsonian will now be able to restore Armstrong's white spacesuit and helmet and display them by their 50th anniversary in 2019.
The institution will even have enough money to preserve and display a second spacesuit used by Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Armstrong died three years ago at the age of 82. The Apollo 11 capsule in which he and two fellow astronauts traveled to the moon still remains at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington.
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