The Legacies of Apollo 11
A personal perspective on Apollo 11, and restoring the American Dream
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7 min readJul 18, 2019
My grandfather Abe Gussowski was born in a shtetl near what is now the Poland-Lithuania border, a couple of years after the Wright brothers flew their first powered aircraft. He survived more than a decade after the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Struggling from immigrant child, to the Merchant Marines…