But we also needed Rosie the Riveter Iowa farm girls who built the machinery of war and the sweethearts they sent to a world away to storm the beaches at Normandy. When we went to the moon, of course, our great astronauts flew the rockets and our great men of science and engineering built them. But there were clerks and janitors and welders like my grandfather, who each played their distinctive American part. All of us have a part. All of us had our part. (24:54–25:02)
CLAIM
Asserts that American astronauts and scientists were responsible for the moon landing.
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