3.3M views · 16K reactions | ✓ The Apollo 11 mission, July 1969 •...

The Apollo program "really was an iconic engineering feat," says Philip Jacknis, a mechanical and industrial engineer who worked on the lunar module. "Nobody had ever built a spacecraft that would pilot a man to the moon." In this video, we speak to the engineers whose hard work and ingenuity helped us take that giant leap in 1969. Building the Apollo vehicle was no ordinary project. In order to land on the moon, which no one had ever before accomplished, the engineers had to do things they had

6K views · 18 shares | From October 2018 through December 2022, NASA will look at the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon. | NASA History | Facebook