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©Stars and StripesKassel, Germany, August, 1969: Autobahn travelers get an unexpected brush with history as a truck carrying the Apollo 8 command module stops at a U.S. military service station during a tour of base exchanges in Europe. The capsule was flown by astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders on the first manned trip around the moon eight months earlier.

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