Astronaut Snoopy lands at local museum

  • Max Ary, center, talks with Weatherford Daily News Publisher Phillip Reid about the expansion of the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford.Timothy Comstock/WDN
  • Pictured left is a part of the Gemini 6 spacecraft. Stafford Air & Space Museum Director, Max Ary, talked about the stress on the heat shields as the craft re-entered the atomsphere, leaving the burn marks on Gemini 6. The full video interview with Ary can be viewed at www.wdnonline.com and on the WDN Facebook.Provided
The Stafford Air & Space Museum has been renovating and adding on to its facility for about 2 years, and Director Max Ary recently gave the Weatherford Daily News a tour of the additions. The museum started out as a 6-foot display case in the airport in the 1980s. In 1993, the formal museum opened, still in the airport, and was dedicated to Gen. Stafford. According to Ary, when Gen. Stafford…

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