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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts) Fri Jul 19, 2019, 12:45 PM Jul 2019

A cross-section of the nation -- more than 300,000 people, joined forces to make Apollo 11 possible. [View all]

More than 300,000 people who worked on the moonshot forged a singular success from a fragmented time. The triumph and the turmoil shaped them, too. Here are a few of their stories.

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A cross-section of the nation -- more than 300,000 people, joined forces to make Apollo 11 possible. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 OP

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