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Gap's been running ads celebrating "iconic Americana moments" and playing up the chain's founding in 1969. But one of its retro choices left NASA fans flummoxed.
A tweet from the recent campaign, posted on March 1, featured a photo of a space shuttle liftoff, emblazoned with the text "1969." As any fan of space history knows, that was the year Apollo 11 went to the moon on a Saturn V rocket, more than a decade before the space shuttle made its debut.
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