PUBLIC LAW 116–28—JULY 5, 2019  133 STAT. 1029  Public Law 116–28  116th Congress  Joint Resolution  July 5, 2019  [H.J. Res. 60]  Requesting the Secretary of the Interior to authorize unique and one-time arrange- ments for displays on the National Mall and the Washington Monument during  the period beginning on July 16, 2019 and ending on July 20, 2019.  Whereas Congress enacted the Act of August 12, 1946 (60 Stat.  997; ch. 955, 1), to establish a National Air Museum, later known  as the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM),  to commemorate and memorialize the American story of human  flight in the atmosphere and in outer space;  Whereas Congress enacted the Act of July 29, 1958 (commonly  known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act) (72 Stat.  426–438; 42 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), to declare a policy of peaceful  space activities designed for the benefit of humankind and to  establish the National Aeronautics and Space Administration  (NASA);  Whereas in July of 1960, NASA announced the creation of the  Apollo Program, the Nation’s first orchestrated initiative to ferry  humankind out of Earth’s orbit and to the Moon;  Whereas on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission succeeded in  landing the spacecraft Eagle on the surface of the Moon, piloted  by two American astronauts, the first humans to ever make  landfall on another celestial body;  Whereas on July 20 and 21, 1969, those brave Americans became  the first humans to set foot on the surface of the Moon, forever  changing Earth’s relationship with the heavens;  Whereas this momentous event was watched in wonder by hundreds  of millions of people back on Earth, including the hundreds of  thousands of NASA civilian and military staff and partners who  made the Apollo Program possible;  Whereas the Apollo Program continued through December of 1972  and spurred the greatest development of human scientific and  technological understanding of any decade to that point, leading  to advances in rocketry, spaceflight, avionics, telecommunications,  and computers, on which the American public still relies today;  Whereas the National Air and Space Museum opened on the Amer- ican Bicentennial in July 1976 as a birthday gift to the country  in celebration of the Nation’s highest achievements, under the  leadership and vision of Museum Director, NASA astronaut, and  Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins;  Whereas NASA continues to pursue space exploration on behalf  of the American people to increase humankind’s understanding  of the heavens; and 