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By Douglas Quenqua / The Bulletin
July 10, 2011
It was two weeks before the liftoff of the Apollo 11 mission when Thomas Moser’s boss walked into his office at NASA and announced, “We’re putting a flag on the moon.”
Moser, then a 30-year-old mechanical engineer, was put in charge of designing a flag mechanism that could not only fit into the....
