The 1969 moon landing is often remembered through the boots of Neil Armstrong, but the mission’s success relied heavily on the technical genius of Wilson Kokalari, an Albanian immigrant from Gjirokastër who served as a lead systems engineer for Apollo 11.While the world watched in awe as humanity took its first steps on the lunar surface, few knew that the "brain" ensuring the spacecraft’s integrity belonged to Wilson Kokalari. Born in Albania, …
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