FIFTY YEARS AGO this coming July 20, two Americans - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - landed their lunar module Eagle on the moon. They were two of the 29 NASA astronauts who flew on Project Apollo, the grand finale in the challenge set forth in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy "to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Back home, the men who completed the Apollo missions with such swagger and success were partial to one four-wheeled road rocket above all others: the Chevrolet Corvette.
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