CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Nearly 60 years ago, the world was changed forever as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to step foot on the moon.
Armstrong’s iconic “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was heard on millions of television sets around the globe -- a defining moment in the history of the world that wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Collins Aerospace.
In the 1960s, the Cedar Rapids factory, then Collins Radio, had a team dedicated to creating the radio technology used on the Apollo 11 mission. Hundreds of people worked over the weekend and late into the night as there wasn’t much room for error.
“You could not make a mistake,” Bresha Brown, who used to work with Collins, said in 1989. “If it could be improved or if you had