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A day for bells, watches, phones, station clocks, school clocks, prayer times, opening hours, and the agreements people make with time.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. In Huntsville, Alabama (where the Saturn V rocket was developed), this is a civic holiday. In Houston (where Mission Control is located), they say "Houston, we have a day." The Apollo program employed 400,000 people and cost $25 billion. The technology in your phone is more powerful than the computers that sent men to the moon. But they did it with slide rules and duct tape and the kind of audacity that only America could muster in 1969.