By the morning of July 16, 1969, Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its surrounds had been engulfed by a million people. Their number included half of all the members of the U.S. Congress, the ambassadors of sixty-nine countries, celebrities major and minor, and countless reporters. All were there to witness the launch of a 111-metre rocket, much taller than the Statue of…
Robert Smith
Robert Smith is former chair of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum. He teaches at the University of Alberta.