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We live at a time when people appear to be less conscious of manned spaceflight than any period in the past 50 years. Humans have had a continuous presence onboard the International Space Station since November 2, 2000, and yet few people are even aware that there is an International Space Station. In the minds of the youngest generations, spaceflight is more likely to be the realm of science fiction or distant history. The Apollo era seems an impossibly long time ago to many people. Indeed, nearly two-thirds of the current population was born in the years after men last walked on the Moon. Is it any wonder that many people dismiss the possibility that we could have even gone to the Moon?
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Ward, J.H. (2015). Introduction. In: Countdown to a Moon Launch. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17792-2_1
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