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Here is one way to conceptualize NASA's heroic era: in 1961, Kennedy gave his "moon speech" to Congress, charging them to put an American on the moon "before the decade is out." In the eight years that unspooled between Kennedy's speech and Neil Armstrong's first historic bootprint, NASA, a newborn government agency, established sites and campuses in Texas, Florida, Alabama, California, Ohio, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, and the District of Columbia; awarded multi-million-dollar contracts an
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― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
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We cannot relive Apollo, but we can preserve its legacy; we can continue to tell the story.
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― Apollo: an Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean
― Apollo: an Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean
