• The Wages of Apollo: Labor, Civil Rights, and the Unseen Workforce of the Moon Landing

    The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and its surrounding contractor campuses were not the sterile, futuristic utopias of propaganda films. They were massive, sprawling industrial sites, a “space-age company town” on the Florida coast. The workforce that assembled, tested, and launched the Apollo spacecraft was not comprised solely of white-shirted engineers with slide rules; it was a multi-tiered, unionized, and often discontented industrial labor force Image by Josh Hallett

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