The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and back 50 years ago went down in history as mankind's giant leap, changing the way we saw our place in the universe. It required overcoming myriad technical challenges, a task made possible only by Congress' decision to hand a blank check to NASA to beat the Soviet Union in the space race. "Apollo provided a laboratory for people to really get down into the solving the huge engineering problems facing us," Brian Odom, a historian at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, told AFP.
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