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What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission

“…the parachutes were sewn by hand, and then folded by hand. The only three staff members in the country who were trained and licensed to fold and pack the Apollo parachutes were considered so indispensable that NASA officials forbade them to ever ride in the same car, to avoid their all being injured in a single accident….”

Smithsonian Magazine article HERE

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