NASA Announces Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for Apollo Moon Landing, July 11, 1962
Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
Date: July 11, 1962
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