When monkeys flew: 50 years since forgotten space pioneers

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The unknown pioneers

Washington:Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong are names printed in bold in thehistory books. But two smaller, unknown space pioneers who helped maketheir advances possible had their first flight 50 years ago.

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Image: AstronautNeil A Armstrong, Apollo ll mission commander, at the modular equipmentstorage assembly (MESA) of the Lunar Module "Eagle" on the historicfirst extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. AstronautEdwin E. Aldrin Jr. took the photograph with a Hasselblad 70mm camera.