The fires of Apollo

Forty-five years ago this month, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon. This was the crowning achievement of the Apollo program, the greatest technological adventure in history. From the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, the world watched, enthralled, as the United States and the Soviet Union raced to be the first to land men on the moon.