NASA 50th Anniversary Moment: Walt Cunningham
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The stellar accomplishment of course was the landing on the moon. That's because 500 years from now, that's what is going to be remembered from the 20th century. But there's also at least two other major accomplishments that I'm sure the public, will comprehend, appreciates and strikes their fancy and one of those is, of course, the Hubble space telescope, which still has one more mission to refurbish. That's captured the public's imagination like nothing else since the first landing on the moon. And then two little rovers running around on Mars. People that had no interest at all in mars I'm sure had followed the trials and tribulations and the fact that those two little unmanned vehicles have lasted for three years when they thought they might last six months if they were lucky. Those are three that I think the public can certainly acknowledge.
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