[meteorite-list] Where Were You When It Happened 35 Years Ago?

[Paul H]

Some 35 years ago, I was with my family at my 
grandmother's house in Falmouth (Cape Cod), MA. There,

I watched the first step on the Moon with my whole
family, 
two parents and five kids, and my Mom's mother
gathered 
around the television. It was a bit surreal watching
the 
first step on the Moon live on television. (It was one

thing that science fiction writers apparently failed
to 
predicted.) Afterward, my grandmother talked about 
how she felt when she first read about the Wright 
Brother's flight. It was was weird to think about her 
having seen it all from the Wright Brothers to Neil 
Armstrong. 

Before it, I had been following the entire space
program
and watching almost every televised launch of a
manned-
space vehicle and even launches of unmanned vehicles. 
My mother would arrange with teachers to either let me

leave school for an hour or so to be home to watch a 
manned launch or watch the launch at school on
television. 

Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA


		
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