NEWS
By Mary O’Keefe | July 23, 2009
Forty years ago this past Monday, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took that unforgettable step onto the moon as the world watched. While Armstrong?s boot may have been the first to land on the lunar surface, to get to that point, it took hundreds of dedicated scientists and engineers who received only a collective share of the spotlight. Some of those technocrats were at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, which had sent robotic explorers long before Armstrong, Edwin ?