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[i]Frank Pullo remembers many things about the era from 1962 to 1972 when teams of Grumman engineers and technicians in Bethpage on Long Island built all of NASA's lunar modules, including the 23-foot-tall spacecraft that landed on the moon's Sea of Tranquillity 40 years ago today. Mr. Pullo, an electrical engineer in charge of testing and retesting the various systems on the modules, remembers the intricacies of verification protocols and the endless workweek like the wrap-up of building Lunar Module 6, when he did not go home for a week and slept in the astronauts' trailers. But mostly he remembers the intoxicating feeling of being part of history. "I used this analogy even then," said Mr. Pullo, now 76, who, like many of the former Grumman engineers, works part time as a docent at the Cradle of Aviation Museum here in Garden City, where two of the four remaining modules not still on the moon reside. "I told everyone, this is like building the pyramids, something that's been around for 5,000 years," he said. "It's a first, and it isn't a small first going to another world something that will be around for a long, long time."[/i]
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