In April, the world watched as NASA’s Artemis II successfully completed its nine-day mission of sending humans to the moon. In this bonus episode, we’re looking back at an archive interview about another successful lunar mission: the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Journalist Charles Fishman came on Fresh Air in 2019 to talk about his book “One Giant Leap,” covering the scientists who made the impossible mission happen, and how they did it. | Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air’s archives at FreshAirArchive.org. | To access bonus episodes, sponsor-free listening and to support public radio, become a Fresh Air+ supporter at plus.npr.org/freshair.
