We could watch launches from our house (it was right next to Satellite Beach High School).
My husband was with Air Force Eastern Test Range and flew on the ARIA aircraft. He participated in Apollo 15, 16, 17, all of the Skylab missions and Apollo/Soyuz.
He served there under three of the Viet Nam POWs that returned in 1973.
That’s awesome.
I don’t have anywhere near as cool a story.
It must have been really amazing there at that time.