In 1961, when United States was well behind the Soviet Union in the space race, then Pres. John F. Kennedy had a crazy idea: to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. The success of the Apollo program in achieving that goal was an engineering achievement on par with the Manhattan Project and mass production, but despite much higher technology today, it will be a challenge to repeat that success. Jim Anderton explains why.

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