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Giants Among Us: The Day Mankind Took Aim at the Moon

It was the summer of 1969. America was still reeling from the social tremors of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War was raging across headlines and hearts, and Woodstock hadn’t yet welcomed its muddy masses. But on one blistering morning in Florida, something incredible happened—something that paused the noise of the world and replaced …

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Lunar Module 2

Between 1969 and 1972, six lunar modules essentially identical to this one landed a total of 12 American astronauts on the Moon.  This lunar module, LM-2, never flew into space.  It was built for testing in low Earth orbit, but was actually used on Earth to measure the LM’s ability to withstand the forces of …

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