I was 4 during the first moon landing, but I don't remember it. Family tragedy crowded it out, I think; my older brother was dying from leukemia at the time. I do remember the last moon landings in 1972, though: thinking how cool it was seeing the rover bouncing around the landscape, asking my Dad if my backyard telescope was powerful enough to see the astronauts on the surface. :)
What was hearing Nixon's resignation like?
Somber, a little scary, and a bit of a relief, too. No one in my family was sorry to see him go.
" I do remember the last moon landings in 1972, though: thinking how cool it was seeing the rover bouncing around the landscape, asking my Dad if my backyard telescope was powerful enough to see the astronauts on the surface. :)"
LOL! My Dad used to show us a home movie of one of the early Apollo flights he got when he was stationed in Florida c. 1962. It was on one of those 8mm films that you had to project onto the wall--back then we thought that was high-tech :)
BTW, meant to tell y'all, yesterday I managed to find used paperback copies of Heinlein's "Green Hills of Earth" and "Expanded Universe" short story collection. How are those?