[HamiltonJay]

Amazing...

I still recall just seeing Saturn’s rings in a small backyard telescope for the first time as a child, and later as a teenager looking through an observatory telescope and seeing Jupiter...

Amazing how far we have come in some ways, and yet, in other areas, we seem to have regressed, sometimes as a direct result of the progress in other areas.

[Dan in Wichita]

I was 10 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I envisioned myself walking on the surface of the moon as a tourist, possibly sometime in the 2020s.

As you said, we have regressed in some areas, space travel among the foremost.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think I managed to see Neptune through a small telescope in my parents' back yard many years ago. Neptune was discovered in 1846--it took until 2010 for it to complete one orbit since its discovery.

When I was a kid, my father told me no one knew what the far side of the moon looked like. That was true at the time but it wasn't much later that the Soviets first managed to photograph the far side.