Moon Landing
I grew up a grade-school NASA addict. I was already a science fiction fan, and here was LANDING ON ANOTHER PLANET(oid) FOR REAL!
I was away at summer camp, and they had wheeled a large, staticky B&W television for us to watch. Wow, even so.
I have wondered in later years about the crew of Apollo 10 a few months earlier, going down in the lander to within 10 miles of the surface of the moon. How did they avoid the temptation to declare an in-flight emergency and land anyway?
Uncle Ted
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