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Engineering a Moon Shot

2009, July 22 - 4:21pm — Greg Kontos
Features: Current EventsInstitutions: NASA, Langley Research CenterPeople: Dennis Wingo

Andrew Orlowski at the register wrote this great article on how NASA overcame their original engineering challenges to land on the moon. He also covers some of the less well know aspects of NASA's early days. Yes, it is a 40 year retrospective of sorts... But it is good.


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