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Article: They made the moon mission go; An Eden Prairie kids' author talks about the army of extraordinary ordinary people who landed Apollo 11 on the moon.(WEST)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 16, 2007
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Byline: David Gustafson; Staff Writer
Everyone knows the story of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon and Michael Collins orbiting above. But how many know the stories of the 399,997 other folks who got them there and brought them back?
We're talking about the engineers in mission control, sure, but we're also talking about the seamstresses who stitched 22 layers of fabric for the space suits, and a 23-year-old computer whiz who helped debug unexpected alarms while the lunar module rapidly descended toward the surface.
Children's author Catherine Thimmesh of Eden Prairie combed through a mountain of records as tall as the Saturn V rocket to write ...