[decimon]

You are too young to remember the Cold War atmosphere of the sixties aren't you.

I'm 64 and I remember the times. I remember that JFK ran on a BS platform of Eisenhower having let us fall behind in a missile gap with the Soviets. That he parlayed that BS into the Apollo program.

What do you remember?

[PIF]

Since you didn’t ask - I sat on the front lines during the race to the moon - and it was worth it. Unless you would have preferred learning Russian like I did - no easy task.

None of that was BS - it was always a matter of life and death - something the media concealed from the public most of the time. I guess you would have had to have been there to appreciate what we few (watching over the Russian space program, and military movements) did to keep you safe and non-Russian speaking.

[Rooivalk]

What do you remember?

I remember working graveyard at North American in Downey on the Command Module and going to school in the day

I remember the single minded commitment to beat Russia to the moon

I remember an America with a 'can-do' mentality where we Americans could do anything

Unlike today where we cower before the so called "mighty" Chinese Ha!