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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Lunar Landing
Season 13
Episode 1303
Huell travels to Edwards, California to visit Dryden Flight Research Center, which is NASA’s primary center for atmospheric flight research and operations. Before man could walk on the moon, they had to land safely and the Lunar Lander needed a lot of fine-tuning. Huell meets up with some of the men who spent many hours working on and flying the craft in preparation for the first moon landing.
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