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The name for the early spaceflight programs were chosen by the NASA managers in charge. Abe Silverstein is credited with naming Apollo, after the Greek god of light and music, mainly because he thought of it as bringing the "light of knowledge" to man.

The USSR space program was more straightforward in their Moon probes, naming them Luna (Lunik).

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