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apollo11-impactForty-Five years ago this week NASA made dreams a reality. Humankind shot three men into outer space with a mission to land on the moon.  On September 12, 1962 President John F. Kennedy made his famous Moon Speech at Rice stadium in Houston, TX. He told a nation his dream to put a man on the moon. This speech helped kick off the Apollo mission. Though initially the great space race was another battle ground for the cold war with the USSR, it lit a fire of stimulus for multiple generations.

The Apollo 11 mission motivated a generation of innovators, technologists, mathematicians, dreamers, scientists and engineers. The Moon Landing confirmed that, if you could dream it, arouse it, campaign it, and finance it, almost anything could be accomplished. The Apollo 11 Mission had three major factors: