Thanks for the great post.
As a 11yr. old boy, I witnessed my first launch, Apollo 11.
I witnessed every moon landing mission launch from the central Florida area.
My most memorable was Apollo 17 night launch. I was approx. 6 miles west of the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center.
The power of those 5 engines would rattle your chest like you couldn’t believe!
I’m so jealous. That is one sight I wish I could have seen. I used to watch all of thgese on the TV and make recordings of the audio on an old reel-to-reel tape recorder (no DVDs or VCRs or DVRs back then). Oh, well, maybe in the next life...