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The City of Downey has been the site of aviation ingenuity and achievement since 1929, featuring large scale aircraft manufacturing, missile design and development, and ultimately, the design and production of the Apollo command and service modules during the lunar program and development and production of the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

Upon the closing of the Downey NASA Plant in 1999, the City of Downey began a redevelopment effort, which will result in the building of a hospital complex, retail center, film production facilities, and an educational component that will preserve the 70-year legacy of aviation and aerospace history through space science education programs.

The Space Science Learning Center to be developed on this historic site will honor the people who worked in the aviation and aerospace industry in Downey, and seek to enhance the science literacy of future generations.

In October, 2004, both houses of Congress passed a resolution authored by US Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard and co-sponsored by the entire contingent of California representatives to Congress, naming Downey’s learning center the Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center (CMSSLC). Click here to read the text of the congressional act.

In recognition of the importance of the learning center, NASA is helping support the development of the CMSSLC through an appropriation in its FY00 NASA Academic Programs budget.