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Apollo Mission Control Room Reopened to Mark Moon Landing Anniversary

Lesia Bakalets

   On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
   set foot on the lunar surface -- the first men on the moon. The U.S.
   space agency, NASA, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this
   historic event in style -- by restoring and reopening the control room
   that handled the historic Apollo 11 mission. Today it is a museum, but
   it looks every bit alive and real as it did in 1969, as though
   engineers and scientists just stepped away for a moment. Lesia Bakalets
   visited the control room. Anna Rice narrates her story.

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