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The Apollo Program – One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Man

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On 20 July 1969, over 650 million viewers tuned into live television broadcast of Armstrong’s historic “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Apollo 16 marked the first manned mission with a lunar rover, enabling Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin to explore the lunar surface over three days […]

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The Apollo Program

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NASA’s Apollo program was its flagship effort in the 1960s and ’70s for human exploration of space, using Saturn family rockets to send 12 crewed missions to land humans on lunar surfaces and 1 uncrewed test flight. Apollo 1 was the inaugural crewed mission, yet tragically failed when its crew module caught fire during a

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