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This Magnificent Desolation

In doing so they met the challenge issued a mere eight years earlier by then President John F Kennedy, an accomplishment of such technical and logistical scope that it exceeded even that of the Manhattan Project or the construction of the Panama Canal.

Yet Apollo, as Kennedy promised, was not just “one man going to the Moon”, it was the journey of “an entire nation”. The only question being what would happen to that nation when it fell to Earth?