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Apollo 11: Highest Summit Of Mankind's Achievements

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The mission to land on the moon known as Apollo 11 marks the highest summit of mankind’s achievements. Jerry Bostick was an engineer on the flight team and emphasizes the difficulties that preceded the first walk on the moon. “The first manned Apollo flight, Apollo 7, remains an unheralded mission,” Bostick said. The Apollo missions in the past had seen various setbacks and tragedies, and the success of Apollo 7 was absolutely crucial to the continuation of the Apollo missions. “By Apollo 7, the command module capsule had been redesigned and made much safer, then put into Earth orbit to prove its airworthiness.” The mission to the moon was within our reach.

Though missions had been done in the past flight director Gene Kranz pointed out that,
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