When the Dragon 9 team landed a few weeks ago, it reminded me of Apollo 13 return. I had to watch the movie agin. To my kids, like most of the space program, it’s a few paragraphs in a history book. For my husband and me, it was a witnessed life event. Televised, yes, but not just words in a book.
...returned to Earth?
By the time, Apollo 13 took out, space flight was considered so routine that it wasn’t covered live. Then, the accident happened.
Challenger was the same. Only CNN carried it live...
The next mission, Apollo 14 was definitely covered live.