America prepares for its mission to the moon, 1965
by Chris Hall from Science | The Guardian on (#5XHY1)
Eating, shaving, going to the loo... what was it all going to be like in space?
For the first issue of the Observer Magazine of 1965, John Davy went on a tour of locations involved with the US moon-shot programme, the most breathtaking venture in history' (Target moon', 3 January 1965).
He found Lem (the Lunar Excursion Module) squatting, shiny and new, in a hangar on Long Island... it looks precisely like something that has crept off the cover of a back number of Astounding.'
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