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Apollo 11's Scariest Moments:An Understatement On A grand Scale

Staff Reporter
First Posted: May 05, 2016 08:43 PM EDT

Most people knew that going to the moon was risky. Some outside of Mission Control, listening to the tense communication between the astronauts and Houston, understood what some of the urgency meant. But few, very few, knew the scope of the dangers that the crew faced. These were no longer theoretical; they were being played out in space at that very moment.

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