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How the moon landing helped launch Silicon Valley

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Jul 19, 2019

It's all thanks to the computer chip.

Buzz Aldrin sets up the Solar Wind Composition Experiment during NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in July 1969.

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