'Houston, Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed."
This terse message transmitted live from the surface of the Moon twenty-five years ago, on July 20, 1969, was heard by more than a billion people a quarter of a million miles away on Earth. It was a once in-a-lifetime moment when all humank...
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A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rocketsOn October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put...
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