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Space

Video special: Key events that took Apollo to the moon

By Roger Highfield

21 July 2009

Video: John F. Kennedy starts the great moon race
Video: US vs USSR: The moon race is on
Video: The first woman in space
Video: The first spacewalk
Video: Neil Armstrong makes the first emergency landing
Video: Astronauts die as capsule explodes

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Race for the Moon.

(Image: NASA)

See the other videos in part 2

Read more: Apollo 11: Why the moon still matters

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