It so happened we left the service on 1 July1969 and went to Titusville, Florida to visit my husband's brother and family. Jack worked at The Cape, and urged us to stay to see the flight lift off.
We positioned ourselves right across the Indian River from the Cape, and it was incredible to see and *hear* the launch, reverberating with incredible intensity!
Believe dansangel was there, too, and some other Finest Folk, I seem to remember...
When I lived in Melbourne (same county as Cape Canaveral) from 1957 to 1961, I saw many of the early space and manned flights go skyward.
Took my son to the Cape when he was 12 or 13. Neither of us wanted to leave! They didn't have any flights scheduled for the time we were there but they were moving the rockets to the launch pad. The machine the were using was enormous and they could only move about 3 miles per hour.
One night on the newscast the weatherman made mention of the fact that if people would watch the sky at a certain that night they would be able to see a lift off from the Cape. Sho' nuff we did. Awesome, really awesome.
Hi, (((((MAGGIE)))))!
Hard to imagine - actually walking on the MOON!