Before Neil Armstrong made his historic step onto the lunar surface, he and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members had spent three days training and exploring the man-made craters at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. The crews of Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17 also trained at the site. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
50 years ago William Corney was an engineer on the Apollo 11 mission at a tracking station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)