Utahn helped map the moon for Apollo 11 astronauts

Stansbury Park • Before astronauts could land safely on the moon — a feat that happened 50 years ago this week — NASA officials needed to pick a nice flat spot to aim at. But they couldn’t do that without a very accurate map of the lunar surface.It was a project that took two and a half years, required mathematical and scientific genius and, according to Utah resident Jim Taylor, “miles of Scotch tape.”A physicist, who now lives in Stansbury Park, Taylor and tw