45 years ago today — on July 16 , 1969 — astronauts Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin , and Michael Collinslaunched to the Moonon top of the mightiest spaceship ever built . These amazing pic from NASA ’s vaults show how they build and plunge that spaceship — I expect at them in awe and admiration .
It was the most important tripper in the account of human beings , a trip that many hold impossible — some people still do think it ’s impossible — an odyssey that started many long time before andchanged our perception of the humankind itself .
Only eight twelvemonth before this day — on on May 25 , 1961 — Kennedy harbinger a plan to go to the Moom . It was a plan that they did n’t have . In fact , the simple approximation was one that almost everyone reckon was inconceivable to do in that timeframe . Just think about this : The United States only launched its first humans to space on May 5 , 1961 — and he did n’t even orbited the Earth . That happened after Kennedy ’s announcement , on February 20 , 1962 .

And yet , they did it . The United States was defend against all odds to beat the Soviet Union on the race to the Moon . The effort turn the land into a technological powerhouse like no other in the world , catapulting it decades ahead of everyone else , with more engineering students mystify out of college than ever with the solitary aim of participate in the neat , most awful projection ever guess .
relish these persona of an era long gone .
Photo : NASA

Photo : NASA / Project Apollo Archive
Photo : NASA / MSFC Photo Archive
picture : NASA / KSC Photo Archive

Photo : NASA / GRIN
Image curation — Attila Nagy | Text — Jesús Díaz
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