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American Aerospace Fifty-two years ago today, three American astronauts departed Earth to become the first men to orbit the Moon during the flight of Apollo 8. This epic mission also featured the first manned flight of the mighty Saturn V launch vehicle as well as history’s first super-orbital entry of a manned spacecraft. Following the Apollo 1 tragedy in January of 1967, the United States would not fly another manned space mission until October 1968. That flight, Apollo 7, was a highly successful earth-orbital mission in which the new Block II Apollo Command Module was thorough...

Of a battery, a radio transmitter and a fanlike cooling device orbiting the earth elliptically every 90 minutes. all the u.s. government could do was ask the 70,000 members of the american radio relay league, a society of ham radio operators or buffs, to help them track the soviet beeps. and as we know, a decade later in the summer of '69, the u.s. beat the russians to the moon, accomplishing the president's goal. on july 20th, lunar mneil armst became the first person to walk on the moon. buzz aldrin soon followed him out the door. michael collins was circling above in their ride home the com...

>> okay. we're all yours. roger. >> communications are somewhat scratchy. columbia and eagle now reunited to become apollo 11 again. >> apollo 11, houston, got minute and a half to los. looking great. been a mighty fine day. >> boy, you're not kidding. >> armstrong and aldrin transferring back to the command module and mike collins. >> houston, this is columbia reading you loud and clear. we're all three back inside. the hatch is installed. we're running a pressure check. everything is going well. >> rog, how does it feel up there to have some company?

Switching power frequency. power frequency. >> hornet, understand. completed the decontamination in the command module. >> the elevator will take recovery one down to the hangar deck and where the crew will enter the mobile quarantine facility. this control center becoming jammed with people. i've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before. the apollo 11 plaque has been hung in the mission control center. a replica of the crew patch. [ applause ] [ applause ] and the flags are waving and the cigars are being lit up. and clear across the big board in front is president...

Stable one. >> your condition? >> our condition is excellent. we're just fine. take your time. >> all right. >> that was mike collins reporting the crew was excellent. >> astronaut is in the net. on his way up. command module. >> i have three astronauts aboard.