Good post. Having lived in So CA and my Dad working in the aerospace industry at the very beginning I remember most all of that. It was truly a great time in our country and I remember the space race and televised launches and ocean recoveries that eventually came.
I copied and pasted that so quickly from the History Channel web site, that I for got to mention that I was quoting them.
Post six is not my words, it is a quote from a web site (history channel)