[Haiku Guy]

40 years ago?

Damn, we’re old!

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was just a kid, but I was fascinated by the technology. I am convinced that I am an engineer today because of the Apollo missions.

[chimera]

You're right. It seems like only yesterday. I was the quintessential space geek, building and flying model rockets (thanks to Mr. Estes), recording audio from the missions on an old reel-to-reel tape recorder using a hand mic pressed to the speaker of our old B&W console TV. I recorded live the audio for the Apollo 11 liftoff, lunar landing, and EVA. I still had those tapes after 20 years but lost them somewhere along the way.

One of the highlights of my career as a graduate student (in a previous life) was to do some of the first geochemical analysis of lunar samples using neutron activation analysis (thanks to my graduate advisor at the time, who had connections at NASA). Those were heady days.

[KevinDavis]

I’m turning 40 this year...