On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we take a look at the tech of the Apollo program as covered in the pages of Popular Science
Posted 07.20.2009 at 11:55 am
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With the monotone bleeps of Sputnik still ringing in a rattled nation's ears, President Eisenhower committed America to a program of manned space flight, a program culminating in the Apollo 11 mission and its legendary moon landing.
Whether you believe the astronauts went in peace for all mankind, or as part of a nationalistic competition driven by Cold War paranoia, there's no escaping the profound impact the moon landing had on the human psyche. The moon landing showed the whole world how technology can shift the bounds of the possible, and Popular Science was there the whole way.
So, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, take a look back at Popsci's coverage of the Apollo program, and the age when mankind took its first fledgling steps into the vast cosmos beyond our tiny blue world.
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