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W h y did w e g o t o t h e m oo n? followed,” Sorensen wrote. What was needed to get to the moon before the Soviets was an organizing principle. The Mercury and two-man Gemini programs were the stepping-stones on which the techniques needed to fly to the moon— rendezvous and docking in orbit, along with space walks—could be perfected. But it was Apollo that pulled it all together, focusing the efforts of hundreds of thousands of engineers, scientists and administrators, and of a growing astronaut corps. Thus it came to be that a taciturn 38-year-old civilian test pilot and former naval aviator made humanity’s first bootprint on another astronomical body 40 summers ago. Eleven other U.S. astronauts followed Neil Armstrong down the ladder of their lunar modules to explore the mountains and valleys of the moon. Hu8 EE Times | Apollo | July 20, 2009 mans have not returned since 1972. We mark the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing by telling the stories of some of the engineers who guided Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Sea of Tranquility, helped bring home the crew of the crippled Apollo 13 and knew exactly which electrical switch to throw in the Apollo 12 command module when it was struck by lightning shortly after liftoff. Those engineers figured out a way to send men to the moon and bring them back. They showed that the unthinkable could be achieved. What will the next generation of engineers do to match them? Somewhere, there are girls and boys gazing up at the stars, just as we looked up at the moon on that warm night 40 years ago. And the first flicker of an idea is forming for humanity’s next adventure in space exploration. p About the Author EE Times news director George Leopold, the microphone of his Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder pressed against the TV speakers, watched the first moonwalk from his boyhood home in Appleton, Wis. email: gleopold@techinsights.com

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Apollo - July 20, 2009
Contents
Applying the Lessons of Apollo
Why Did We Go to the Moon?
In the Trenches: Profiles of the Engineers Who Made Apollo Go
Apollo Perspectives: Video Interview with Filmmaker David Sington
Virtual Teardown: Apollo Spacesuit
Virtual Teardown: The ‘Genesis’ Rock
Apollo Chip Teardown: Unit Logic Device
Ted Sorensen on Apollo
Soviet Space Firsts
Apollo Reader Forum
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Contents
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Applying the Lessons of Apollo
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Why Did We Go to the Moon?
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - In the Trenches: Profiles of the Engineers Who Made Apollo Go
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Perspectives: Video Interview with Filmmaker David Sington
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Virtual Teardown: Apollo Spacesuit
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Virtual Teardown: The ‘Genesis’ Rock
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Chip Teardown: Unit Logic Device
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Ted Sorensen on Apollo
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Soviet Space Firsts
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Reader Forum
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