The NASA Surveyor program represented America's first lunar landing, and the 87,000 pictures the Surveyor spacecraft sent home dramatically increased our understanding of our planet’s closest neighbor and only natural satellite.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.