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The Apollo moon mission must rank as one of the most audacious scientific exploration programs attempted by man. The mission involved launching a manned spacecraft into earth orbit, then setting it on a trajectory to orbit the moon. An independent spacecraft with two astronauts aboard was detached from the orbiting vehicle and made a soft landing on the moon.
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Lund, T. (2018). The Apollo Manned Exploration of the Moon. In: Early Exploration of the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02071-2_5
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