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MOON SHOT: Buzz Aldrin, second man
on the moon. There are few photographs
of the first man, Neil Armstrong, because
Armstrong held the camera for most of
the Apollo 11 moonwalk.

Braun contributed an essay to
our December 1965 issue that
explained why it was "The Time
for Space Exploration."
Spectrum had good reason
for its enthusiasm: Many of its
readers were at the forefront
of answering President John F.
Kennedy's challenge to land a
man on the moon before 1970.
Spectrum issues in those days
bulged with recruitment ads for
aerospace outfits like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goodyear
Aerospace, and the systems engineering division of Bellcom.
Those were heady times. A
glorious spacefaring destiny
seemed to await, and ideas
that would have been considered outrageous science fiction a few years previously
were given serious consideration in Spectrum, as in March
1966 with an 11-page article
titled "Communication With
Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
An analysis of what form signals from an alien civilization might take and how we
might decode them, this artior t y-f i v e y e a r s ag o t h i s mon t h , Neil Armstrong
became the first human being to walk on the moon. This
cle wasn't the product of some
was the crowning achievement of the Apollo program, the
fringe element. Rather, it was
greatest technological adventure in history. From the launch
a condensation of presentaof Sputnik in 1957 to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, the world
tions
and a panel discussion
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watched, enthralled, as the United States and the Soviet
organized by Harold Wooster,
Union raced to be the first to land men on the moon.
a director in the U.S. Air Force Office of
And that space fever burned brightly at IEEE Spectrum. In the mid-'60s, we
Scientific Research, at the 1965 IEEE Miliaveraged about three space-related editorial items in each issue, along with countless
tary Electronics Conference. Participants
references to space exploration in other articles. Items ranged from a short news brief
included Lambros D. Callimahos of the
about the difficulties of radio communication on the lunar surface to a long feature dis- National Security Agency and Father
Francis J. Heyden, head of Georgetown
secting the telemetry and command system of the Mariner Mars probe. Wernher von

The Fires of Apollo

Editor's note: In this 50th-anniversary year of IEEE Spectrum, we are using each month's Spectral Lines column to describe some pivotal moments of the magazine's history.
Here, Senior Editor Stephen Cass recounts our coverage of the Apollo program.
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