'One small step for man,' one massive rocket project for engineers
Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 17:07
in Astronomy & Space
The young scientists who created the Saturn V rocket that powered Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins to the moon on Apollo 11 in July 1969 were the unsung heroes in the space race with the Soviet Union. It wasn't a young president's brash promise that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to take those first halting steps on the lunar surface 40 years ago...