Astronaut Buzz Aldrin inside the Apollo 11 prior to the lunar landing on July 20, 1969. (Credit: NASA)

Pilot Michael Collins adjusts the helmet of his space suit in the Ready Room at Cape Kennedy in Florida, before NASA's Gemini 10 mission, July 1966. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the Texas sky as seen from Dallas. (Credit: Jason Hutchinson/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, photographed at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, July 1969.

Space exploration, one of the greatest technological achievements in human history, includes the Apollo missions, the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, and people like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.

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