This is the 2019 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing commemorative edition kit from Revell. Check out the book 'First on the Moon: A journey with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin R. Aldrin Jr.' ISBN 0316051608. It tells the story of the space program, and it's a detailer's/frustrated engineer's dream. A bit of trivia: As a youth, Aldrin met the Wright Brothers -- it was they who inspired him to reach for the stars, and he was instrumental in developing the essential docking procedures first successfully tested on Gemini VIII, led by Neil Armstrong. A note about von Braun: Having been a non-practicing, agnostic Lutheran most of his life, he was a Nazi, but soon became disillusioned with them, and had even been arrested by them. At some point after arriving in the USA he became an evangelical Christian. I could find no specific renunciation of his Nazi past, but when one is 'born again' that means seeking forgiveness for prior sins and bad acts. He died of cancer in 1977, and his simple headstone reads: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Psalm 19:1

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