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Moon Machines

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Forty years on from mankind's first steps on the lunar surface, reaching the Moon is still a metaphor for an impossible journey. In just eight years 400,000 people across America came together to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth. But whilst the astronauts who walked on the moon became household names, the men and women who created the machines that made their journeys possible have been largely forgotten. Yet, from the impossibly gigantic Saturn V rocket to the fragile lunar lander, the stories of these miracles of engineering are every bit as extraordinary as those of the men who flew them.