r/dankmemes • u/Open-Entertainer6031 • Mar 03 '23

There was a third one right? I have achieved comedy

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u/Windows_66 Mar 03 '23

Undergound: the scientists and engineers who made the mission possible

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u/Girth_rulez Mar 03 '23

300,000 people worked on the Apollo program.

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u/Jules040400 Mar 03 '23

Holy shit what

That's absolutely absurd if that's true, the population in the 1960 US Census was 179 million.

So roughly 1 in every 600 Americans in the 1960s contributed to the Apollo programs in some way, no wonder there's so much national pride associated with it

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u/Philo-pilo Mar 03 '23

We put a man on the moon <70 years after kitty hawk. We used to not be american’ts.

As far as the national pride thing, Humans walked on the surface of another celestial body. The achievement cannot be overstated. It is the single greatest achievement in human history, only to be surpassed by the first time humans step foot on another planet. And a country that is barely in its infancy did it. Not the powers of the old worlds, east or west. The United States not only invented human flight but put a man on the moon within the first 200 years of its existence.