June 20, 2025
Somehow Neil Armstrong managed to turn in his NASA application a week late. This might have cost him his chance of going to the Moon, but one of Armstrong’s former colleagues had become a member of NASA’s selection panel. He saw Armstrong’s late application and slipped it in with the others.
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