[Billthedrill]

Watching with a bunch of other kids from around the nation on a black and white TV in the basement rec room of Daniels Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana between my junior year and senior years in high school, because myself and about 50 others nationwide had been chosen for a special summer NSF program of super accelerated engineering and related courses...

Whoa. I was in that same program at the university then known only as Virginia Polytechnic Institute. We had been out on a tour that day and got as far back as a stock arena when we ran out of time. Set up chairs and a TV on the dirt floor and watched the thing from there. Surreal experience.

[Sicvee]

I was on the beach at Kitty Hawk NC with a college buddy who was stationed in Norfolk. Let’s see, from Orville & Wilbur to 1969, then 1969 to now, 112 years.

[catnipman]

I graduated from VPI in 1974 with a BS degree in Computer Science; came out to Colorado and got my MS in CS at University of Colorado in 1978 ...

[MikelTackNailer]

This thread is a hoot as it reveals the age of so many contributors. This eight year old was on a bicycle when a Cadillac hit him and was at month seven of rehab at the time.

The astronauts were THE inspiration to recovery for me and I'm forever grateful to them and my Beatles collection.

Not Beatles.