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Apollo 11: The ‘kids’ who took us to the Moon
The average age of the flight controllers on the Apollo 11 mission was 27. Without this group of youngsters in their twenties and thirties the first Moon landing wouldn’t have happened.
Photo: The Apollo 11 Credit: Nasa
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