I'm another of the seven year olds who watched the landing (I remember half the street crowded into my neighbour's house - who had the only colour TV in the street). My brother in law's step-father worked on the Apollo missions (if you remember the film Apollo 13 when they were looking at photo's of the assembly that had blown up to figure out what had gone wrong - well he took those pictures) and I was fascinated by spaceflight.
A few years later as Apollo / Skylab wound down I read a book called "The High Frontier" by Gerrard K O'Neill about building habitats in space - it was pretty visionary for it's time - and for the last 40 years when I've been standing around waiting for the dog to do his business at night I've looked up at the moon. And wondered how it happened that our dreams got so small.
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