The Amazing Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11’s Moon Voyage

Award-winning journalist Charles Fishman is the New York Times-bestselling author of <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/One-Giant-Leap/Charles-Fishman/9781501106293">One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon</a>,&nbsp;The Wal-Mart Effect and <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Big-Thirst/Charles-Fishman/9781439102084">The Big Thirst</a>.

Charles Fishman

Award-winning journalist Charles Fishman is the New York Times-bestselling author of One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon,&nbsp;The Wal-Mart Effect and The Big Thirst.

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The Amazing Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11’s Moon Voyage