[KoRn]

"One good thing I’m seeing is teenagers talking about this stuff with some actual interest. My 19 year old nephew was posting about this on his facebook page talking about how cool it is and he’s not a science geek like me."

One thing that I believe did some harm to me, and perhaps my generation to some extent is that I was a young child during the early 80s. I was 4 or 5 years old, the Shuttle program, or even space exploration itself hadn't been around terribly long, but to me it always was. It unfortunately trivialized it to me somewhat. Not until my older years did I realize how totally remarkable going to the Moon was, and I began to truly appreciate it all. I would have loved to been around during the 60s and seen all of the early space exploration literally as it happened. Those had to be some remarkably exciting times like no other.

[cripplecreek]

Those had to be some remarkably exciting times like no other.

I was pretty young but it was still very exciting to watch men walking on the moon. I was lucky that my grandfather was friends with Jim McDivitt who one of the true rocket jocks. He didn't go to the moon but he took some steps down the path with a Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 flight.

[rake]

I was a young boy in the early 60s and I was completely fascinated, long before the moon landing. I can still remember my Apollo lunch box :-)

[dr_lew]

I was 20 years old when Apollo 11 landed. I remember the day well. It’s sad to think that this and the subsequent Apollo missions were the apex of manned exploration, in my time, and very likely for a long time to come. I would hate to think that it’s for all time, as this would portend a bleak future for mankind, but when you search Youtube for “Apollo” you are overwhelmed by “Apollo hoax” videos. To me this indicates a future where the Apollo missions are regarded as a myth, as the living memory of them fades. The Truth is out there.