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America's Secret Space Heroes
We all know Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Sally Ride, and other icons of America's space program. But behind the scenes, engineers have been the secret heroes, building the spacecraft and instruments that have helped man leave Earth and explore the stars. We reveal the inside stories of how these brilliant minds created such superior machines as the Saturn V moon rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble Space Telescope, often against incredible odds.
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Saturn V
In 1961, the USSR dominates the space race. President Kennedy challenged his space agency, Nasa, to land a man on the moon. Led by the designer of the Nazi's V2 rocket, Wernher von Braun, by then an American rocket scientist, engineers across America worked together to build a rocket that would get them to a seemingly impossible destination.
