It was July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on an extraterrestrial body—our Moon. Today is the 49th anniversary of that momentous event and we celebrate it in ...

My mother worked at TRW, the commpany that built the Lunar Module Descent Engine on the LEM that saved Apollo 13. After the mission, the astronauts toured many contractors, including TRW. My mother ...

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