Last month, on the 38th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, NASA called in a group of retired Apollo programme engineers. They were asked to share their experience, gained in the 1960s and 70s, with the team now working at NASA to return Americans to the moon by 2020. The veterans had worked as testers for the Grumman Corporation, which built the module that took astronauts down to the lunar surface. Ivan Semeniuk asked two of them – Gerald Sandler and Joe Mulé – for a taste of 1960s space expertise.
How closely did you work with the Apollo astronauts?
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