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Modeling the Future: Lunar Module, Early Days

Modeling the Future: Lunar Module, Early Days

Artists and engineers share this bond: the fruit of their labor is often first embodied in rough, rudimentary form. Namely, a model. Pictured: An early and brilliantly minimalist model of the lunar module that, on July 20, 1969, landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard.

Photo: Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1967