PROLOGUE
Luna 1 was launched and away on its unprecedented journey through space. It was January 2, 1959, and there was a high level of excitement at the remote launch site in the USSR. Scientists were attempting what no one had ever tried before: to hit the moon with a rocket launched from Earth.
It missed.
Ten years later, there was equal excitement in the mission control center of Apollo 11. This time the result was quite different. “Hitting” the moon had become so routine that it was not even an issue—the excitement was in the expectation that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would actually walk on the moon for the first time in history. We were ...
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