We asked our readers for their memories of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing as it nears its 50-year anniversary. These are their stories.
As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, the women who helped America’s early space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.Mark Swanson, 7 years old
“My father, Robert Swanson, was one of the hundreds of thousands of people who made Apollo possible as the production control manager for a company called Control Switch Corp, which created many of the electronic switches used in the command module and lunar module. I remember that he always had a big telephone book-sized book at home in the evenings when there was an Apollo flight. He told us there were only three of them and they had to be returned to Houston after the flight.
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