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I Was Today Years Old When I Discovered Star Trek Won America the Space Race, Not Star Wars

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Star Trek’s premiere predated the moon landing by a few years, but the show had an immense impact on NASA’s space programs, especially the Apollo 11 missions. Created by Gene Roddenberry, the sci-fi show saw a federal space exploration program called Starfleet traveling across the galaxy to contact strange new worlds and boldly go where no one ever went before. The moon landing was done in 1969, by which time the series had already been canceled…
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FandomWire broke the news in on Sunday, July 27, 2025.
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