[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies

[Viking2002]

[pfflier]

It was the year before I graduated from high school and this broadcast along with Apollo 11 the following summer inspired me and many more to become involved in aerospace engineering.

That was an awesome time. A time when we never said, as a country, anything was impossible. It was a time when the phrase "Yes we can" was more that a hollow political jingle.

[Vaquero]

it was amazing to hear...it brought moisture to my eyes and hearing it to this day performs the same miracle on my tear ducts...

Wonderful.

[Joe Boucher]

Merry Christmas
and my GOD bless
KevinDavis

[Renegade]

Sat around the kitchen table eating Cremettes with my buddies in college when this went down. Bet they wouldn’t get away with reading Bible verse today! Seems like yesterday .

[TheVitaminPress]

Excellent, thanks!

[Young Werther]

I was home on vacation after attending a military school. My wife was do around Christmas. She planned a pizza party for some friends on Dec 23 and I was the designated pizza cooker. She went to her weekly doctor checkup. Just as the first pizza came out of the oven the phone rang. My mother-in-law told me that my wifes water had broken and she was heading to the hospital. I called off the party and headed to the hospital.

When I arrived at the hospital the receptionist said that they didn't allow pizza deliveries. I said that I was an expectant father and the pizza was for the dads in the waiting room. She told me that the maternity ward was quarenteened due to an influenca outbreak at that I was to go home and wait by the phone for the doctor's call.

I went home and sat in front of the TV watching the Apollo 8 mission. It was about 3:00AM or so when the crew read from Genesis. They signed off for the night and "brrrinng" the phone rang. The doctor said I had a healthy daughter and mom and kid were fine. He told me that I could visit the next day but would be dressed in scrubs.

The next day I arrived and was excited with a suggested name for my daughter.

Apollonia! ( I had found the name in the book "The Godfather". That was Michaels wife who he met and married while hiding out in Sicily!

My wife said, "No Way"! Thus Lisa was named after....never mind.