Project Apollo was a complex project for NASA that spanned decades. Here’s a look back from different angles from Forbes staffers and contributors.
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More than 400,000 people worked to make the historic Apollo 11 mission happen, among them a number of women, such as Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that developed the spacecraft’s in-flight software; Judith Love Cohen, who designed the Abort-Guidance System in the Apollo lunar module and helped plan a return-to-Earth orbit in case the crew had to abort a mission before reaching the Moon; and Katherine Johnson, who calculated rendezvous paths for the lunar module and command module, and...
Buzz Aldrin, 89, journeyed to the moon with Armstrong in July 1969, and together their Apollo 11 flight created one of history’s most indelible moments. In the years since, Aldrin has become a passionate advocate for returning to space and rekindling America’s ambition to explore the outer limits. To accomplish that goal, he said, the U.S. can’t do it alone, and the country should dream bigger than the moon.
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