"Amiable Strangers"
Three distinct personalities, one goal: reach the moon.
- By Michael Klesius
- AirSpaceMag.com, May 21, 2009
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Aldrin reviews maps of the region that he and Armstrong will overfly as their lunar module rises from the surface after their moonwalk. The oval drawn at the bottom of the sheet in his left hand shows the landing ellipse the pair will target. No desktop computer. No cell phone next to the car keys. The most sophisticated piece of equipment on his desk is the rotary phone. The photo was filed on July 14, 1969.
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While the astronauts were deserving heros of the Apollo project your series needs a section on one person in particular, George M. Low. It was he who met the challange of the disastrous fire that killed three astronauts and brought together the science and engineering that made the capsule workable.
George was originally brought from the Cleveland NASA lab to the Office of Manned Space Flight by Abe Silverstine. After the fire he was transferred to Houston to take over the design of the capsule. Without him the Moon landing may never have happened. After the landing and the instigation of the Space lab project he was made Deputy Administrator of NASA. His life story would be worth an article.
Posted by Robert E. Blue on June 24,2009 | 12:16 PM