Stafford Air & Space Museum Selects RPM Advertising As Agency Of Record
CHICAGO, Feb. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- RPM announced today that the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, OK has named RPM Advertising in Chicago as its full scope agency of record. Founded in 1981 by legendary astronaut Lt. General Thomas P. Stafford, the museum was selected to be an official Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in 2011.
"Developing an aerospace museum of national importance in western Oklahoma is a major marketing challenge," according to Max Ary, director of the museum. "It requires a national-based marketing perspective that we haven't had before. RPM Advertising offers this level of marketing expertise along with the kind of enthusiasm and experience that we need to connect to potential visitors who pass by our entrance on Route 66 everyday."
General Stafford added, "RPM has clearly demonstrated its knowledge of the aerospace industry. I'm confident that we'll be in good hands with a team that has a history of a decade-long marketing partnership with the natural history museum in Chicago. The agency has already stepped up to the plate with innovative ideas to put the Stafford in the national spotlight."
The Stafford Air & Space Museum houses one of the finest collections of aviation and space flight exhibits in the Central United States including the Apollo 10 spacesuit worn by General Stafford on his historic mission to the Moon in 1969. The museum has one of the only indoor exhibits of an actual Titan II Rocket.
General Stafford is a legendary astronaut, aviation pioneer and hometown hero as he was born and raised in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Stafford was selected by NASA in September 1962 to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo. He was named Commander of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission – a joint space flight culminating in the historic first meeting in space between American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Many historians now site this mission as the beginning to the end of the Cold War.
A grand celebration is planned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the Stafford Air & Space Museum on June 8, 2015. Apollo astronauts from across the country are expected to attend the gala that will pay tribute to the last of the Apollo missions.
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