Iowa Files: One Small Step for Iowa, One Giant Leap for America

Iowa isn’t just a flyover state for NASA, but it also provided important materials and technology for the Apollo lunar program. In fact, without Iowa, no one may have seen Neil Armstrong’s first steps. Learn about Iowa’s role in the early NASA days, and how it continues today from David Dubczakk. You usually see David behind the camera at Iowa Files. He’s also a lifelong space enthusiast who loves digging into the technical details of space history. As a graduate student, he worked at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

This joint library-Historical Society event is free and open to the public thanks to the support of West Des Moines Historical Society Members, EMC Insurance Foundation, the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation and the Iowa Arts Council. 

All Iowa Files programs will be live streamed on the West Des Moines Historical Society’s Facebook Page and all videos will be closed captioned. They will also be uploaded to their YouTube channel after the event takes place.