Apollo 11 wasn’t perfect

by John on November 29, 2010

The mission that first landed men on the moon could easily have been aborted. From Rocket Men:

Though Apollo 11 is commonly believed to have been a perfect mission, so many things in fact went wrong Kennedy Space Center directory Jay Honeycutt later admitted, “I tell you, it would have been damn easy to abort that mission. Damn easy.”

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Speedmaster 11.30.10 at 12:25

I credit my Omega Speedmaster Professional for helping them get home. ;-)

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