But cancer is so complicated that it makes the Apollo moon landing seem like building a model airplane.
Five more Apollo moon landings would follow before the program ended in 1972.
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It is part of the history section of the terrific Nasa website and is a fascinating archive of the Apollo Moon landings.
The thing that inspired me to become an astronaut was watching the Apollo moon landings many, many years ago with my parents.
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With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.
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On a lighter note there is also the transcript, audio recordings and video of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight.
Buzz Aldrin, the pilot on the Apollo 11 moon landing, paid him this tribute in a BBC interview in 2009.
In 1970, the ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission launched from Florida.
It should be noted also that the agencies, their industrial partners and a number of "space tourism" advocates have all previously thought about repeating the Apollo 8 Moon mission, if only to do one simple loop around the back.
While his fellow Apollo 11 moon-walker, Buzz Aldrin, seemed up for anything from "Dancing With The Stars" to "Transformers 3" (and he's been a wry and inspirational figure to have on the scene), Armstrong kept his distance from the media circus beyond authorizing a biography, "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, " in 2005.
The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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However, David Woods, author of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, was more positive.
The factory is built on the site of the the Redstone Arsenal, which produced the earliest U.S. rockets, including the Saturn V, which took Apollo astronauts to the Moon.
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The problem NASA has faced is that since the Eagle landed on the moon and Apollo 11 returned safely to the earth the American people lost interest in our manned space program.
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It was 1969, and a Saturn V rocket assembled by Boeing--Seattle's biggest employer--had just delivered the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon.
That was when he held the antenna rabbit ears of his family's television to get the clearest picture of the Apollo astronauts walking on the moon.
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In 1971, the three-man U.S. spacecraft Apollo 14 was launched to the moon.
That era continued through several successive moon landings, ending with Apollo 17 in 1972.
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America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, who later walked on the moon in 1971's Apollo 14 mission, became a millionaire businessman.
It started with Rachel Carson's popular 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides, "Silent Spring, " and the eye on the planet increased with a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited near the moon in 1968.
The footage of the Apollo 11 crew's landing on the Moon is one of 20th Century's most important artefacts.
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Armstrong launched onto the world stage in July 1969, when he commanded NASA's Apollo 11 mission to make the first manned moon landing.
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However, after more than 40 years in the ocean, the serial numbers are so badly corroded that it may not prove possible to identify specific engines, such as those that lifted Apollo 11 to the first landing on the Moon.
As we were leaving the museum through the Rose Center for Earth and Space, past stunning images of the Apollo astronauts working on the surface of the moon, I asked her, for the record, why she'd never felt the urge to visit before.
Apollo 17, the last manned expedition to the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.
Eight years and eight weeks later, Apollo 11 completed the job, flying to the moon and back in July 1969.
These phones, such as those running the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems, offer "more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon, " Nancy Gibbs writes for Time.
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