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Left: Apollo 9

Command Module

Pilot Dave Scott

emerges from the

hatch, testing some

of the spacesuit

systems that will

be used for lunar

operations. The

photo was taken

from the hatch of

the docked Lunar

Module by Rusty

Schweickart in

March 1969

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T

he launch of the Sputnik 1

satellite by the Soviet

Union in October 1957

jolted the US Federal

Government into action, and the

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) was formed

on 29 July 1958... the ‘Space Race’

had truly begun. NASA absorbed

and succeeded the 43-year-old

National Advisory Committee for

Aeronautics (NACA) and officially

began operations on 1 October 1958.

NASA’s remit was clearly set out in

the National Aeronautics and Space

Act of 1958, which stated, ‘The

Congress hereby declares that it is

the policy of the United States that

NASA’s early years culminated in the historic

Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Steve Fairclough

spoke to science author Piers Bizony

to discover the role of photography in

documenting these pioneering missions

Shooting

for the

moon

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