Why the Moon landing matters, 50 years later
This summer, on July 20, we will mark the golden anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing, and we’ll do so at a moment for space exploration that may turn out to surpass the 1969 original. The race to the Moon in the 1960s was a stunning achievement of technology, engineering, and politics–by some …
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