We begin our story of the race to the Moon in 1903 – the year in which the Wright Brothers' heaver-than-air flying machine first left the ground. Fifty four years later came the first satellite (Sputnik 1), followed by the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1, 1961), the birth of Project Apollo (May 1961), NASA’s groundbreaking Gemini program (1965-66), Apollo 8’s flight around the Moon (1968), and last but not least, Apollo 11’s momentous lunar landing.