On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.
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The Soviet rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11, inside the N1 moon booster disaster at Baikonur
In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...
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The speech prepared if Apollo 11 failed, inside William Safire’s secret moon disaster memo
As Apollo 11 unfolded, the White House quietly prepared for the possibility that Armstrong and Aldrin would never return. This is the story of William Safire’s haunting memo, the speech Nixon was ...
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