Secret Service official to resign No. 2 post
WASHINGTON – The deputy director of the Secret Service, who managed day-to-day operations during scandals that badly tainted the agency, will resign his position but will be allowed to accept another unspecified federal job within the Homeland Security Department, the government said Monday.
Alvin “A.T.” Smith, who was appointed to the No. 2 job in April 2012, will resign effective Tuesday.
Souvenirs from moon landing discovered
NEW YORK – More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light.
Among the trove: a 16mm movie camera from inside the lunar module that filmed its descent to the moon and Armstrong’s first steps on the lunar surface in 1969.
That camera “took one of the most significant sets of images in the 20th century,” said Allan Needell, a curator in space history at the National Air and Space Museum.
In an interview Monday, Needell said the museum had been told about the bag in June 2013 by Armstrong’s widow, who had found it while cleaning out a closet. Armstrong died in 2012.
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