UTD Scientists Vital To Manned Lunar Mission

From the Dallas Morning News:

Forty years ago this month, the whole world was focused on the first manned lunar landing. But a group of scientists at the just-created University of Texas at Dallas was paying particular attention.

The fledgling school, created by the Texas Legislature earlier that year, was a home to teams of space researchers. ... The men were among thousands of people tied to Apollo through an ambitious set of goals: to send people to the moon, to bring them back safely and to better understand Earth's closest neighbor.

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