‘The NASA Archives,’ a New Book About the Space Agency’s Glory Days, Is Out of This World

Fifty years ago the world watched in awe as astronauts took their first steps on the moon. The product of nearly a decade of work by a team of almost half a million people, the Apollo moon landing was heralded as humanity’s greatest achievement. It was by any measure an incredible feat, and it firmly established the fledgling American Space Program, led by NASA, at the forefront of the new space age. With its roster of steely-eyed astronauts and its legion of tireless, slide rule-wielding