This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...
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History’s publicists have done well by Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s first moon steps in July 1969. However, fewer recall the Apollo 12 lunar mission four months later. It almost didn’t happen. The ...
A part of Raymond H. Malone went to the moon and never came back. Mr. Malone was an engineer for IBM and helped write computer programs for the Apollo Program that sent astronauts on the moon. A ...