#46: 'It Was Impossible'—The Starry-Eyed Dream that Launched Us to the Moon

We’ve seen the grainy video footage of Neil Armstrong, and heard the recording of his famous words about the “small step.” In our imaginations, this unbelievable achievement has essentially been distilled down to that. But it was the result of a massive team of people laboring for a decade on an effort unlike anything that came before it.