Aviation History

MOONSHOT MEMORIES

half-century ago, on July 16, 1969, citizens of the earth collectively held their breath while three men embarked on humanity’s greatest adventure. Four days later, an estimated 600 million people watched TV screens as Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong descended down the lunar module ladder and planted the

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