The Apollo program "really was an iconic engineering feat," says Philip Jacknis, a mechanical and industrial engineer who worked on the lunar module. "Nobody had ever built a spacecraft that would pilot a man to the moon." In this video, we speak to the engineers whose hard work and ingenuity helped us take that giant leap in 1969. Building the Apollo vehicle was no ordinary project. In order to land on the moon, which no one had ever before accomplished, the engineers had to do things they had

1.7K views · 5.4K reactions | Apollo 17’s Lunar Module Challenger undocks from the Command Module America and lines up for descent to Taurus–Littrow, starting the final crewed Apollo landing on the Moon. Follow @spaceeves #Apollo17 #MoonLanding #SpaceHistory | SpaceEve | Facebook