Museum of Flight lands trove of personal papers from NASA icon George Abbey

Former NASA Johnson Space Center Director George Abbey at the JSC ceremony handing over the "keys" to the space shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer to The Museum of Flight in January, 2012. (Ted Huetter/Museum of Flight)

They arrived at Seattle’s Museum of Flight in more than 100 boxes — nearly four decades worth of personal papers from George Abbey, the Seattle native and former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center who was a key figure behind the Apollo program, the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle program and many other landmark… Read More…