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Apollo 11 gets the glory – but these missions made it possible

Apollo is remembered for Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, but the program was built through a long chain of dangerous tests, failures, fixes, and near disasters. Before Apollo 11, NASA had to ...
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Apollo 11 launch anniversary: Celebrating NASA’s historic mission that sent humanity to the moon

Exactly 57 years ago today, NASA launched the historic mission that took humanity to the Moon. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with three ...
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Step Inside the Apollo 11 spacecraft and relive its historic journey

The story of the Apollo 11 mission as told in the voices of the first men to set foot on the Moon. Using dramatic reconstruction, declassified cockpit audio recorded by the astronauts themselves and ...
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Pen that saved the Apollo 11 astronauts sells for over $800K at auction

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

In 1976, a former NASA intern paid $217 for 1,150 old tapes; 43 years later, 3 Apollo 11 recordings from the lot sold for $1.82 million

In 1976, a former NASA intern spent just $217 on 1,150 old tapes. At the time, they looked like forgotten pieces of history, with little reason to expect anything extraordinary. Then, 43 years later, ...