The Merchandise Guide
Annual 1975

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Do you remember? The first breath-taking steps in man's conquest of Space? The astronautical program- me that led to the incredible achievement of a human foothold on the Moon?    They called it Project Apollo, and it began way back in 1961 . . .    The first seven years--up to 1968--consisted of pre-

parations. Thousands of scientists, engineers, tech- nicians and other specialists formulated the concepts, drew the blueprints, then built the machinery for Apollo's voyages of dis- covery.    Project Apollo encom- passed eleven three-man space flights, two in earth orbit and nine involving

circumnavigations of the Moon. In each of six of these, two astronauts actually landed on the Lunar surface. Considering themselves en- voys from planet Earth, the first two to do so--Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, left a plaque there inscribed "we came in peace for all mankind". Such was the excitement of the event

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