Recalling the day of the 'Giant Leap'

On the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon, current and former members of the MIT community remember what it was like during those epochal last moments as the spacecraft hurtled toward the moon, and how the experience shaped their lives.

• "Landing Apollo via Cambridge," by Don Eyles
• Members of the MIT community give their firsthand accounts of what it was like on July 20, 1969