The Apollo 11 crew is etched in the history books, but it took an estimated 400,000 workers to make the moon landing possible.
Florida TodayWhen President John F. Kennedy challenged the country to land humans on the moon before the end of the 1960s, a willing nation didn’t disappoint.a virtual army of 400,000 workers did what had seemed impossible.
As the Apollo 11 astronauts rehearse their lunar landing mission in simulators, they pause in front of a lunar module mockup in the Flight Crew Training Building area. From left, are Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, Commander Neil A. Armstrong, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.The space race ratcheted up in 1957 when Russia successfully sent Sputnik 1 into orbit, making it Earth’s first artificial satellite. Russia further outdid the U.S.
John Tribe, who worked on Atlas rockets after coming to the U.S. from England in 1960, was stunned by the“We were frequently back in those days watching vehicles blow up. About every third vehicle didn’t make it,” Tribe said. “And now we’re talking about building this immense new rocket at this time that we didn’t even know what it would look like. Put three men on top of it and send it to the moon.
“You could see sketches and pictures and even photographs of testing elements ... but you had to see it to really realize we are dealing with massive stuff,” Solid said. “He was a popular guy,” Solid said. “Whatever party you belonged to, you liked John Kennedy. You especially liked him for supporting something as massive and important as the Apollo program.”
On July 16, 1969, the time came for America to complete the goal set out by President Kennedy, to become first to send humans to the moon.As launch time neared, Tribe had an important briefing to give before the astronauts could be loaded into the capsule. Bob Freeman, an engineering tech on the second stage of the Saturn V, gave one of the green lights for the Saturn V launch. Four days later, he watched the moon landing at home.
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