Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

[Don Shepherd]

(07-23-2019 05:26 AM)JimP Wrote:  It would be interesting to know where people on this forum were 50 years ago (at least the ones who had been born already and can remember!)

Like Tom L, I was there at the launch! I was 18 and drove from Kentucky to Titusville, parked in a Post Office parking lot across from a Penneys store (along with hundreds of others), and brought my Super 8 movie camera so I could film the liftoff of Apollo 11, which was about 10 miles away. I've still got that film, but no projector to run it on, however I had it copied to DVD years ago.

That was undoubtedly America at it's finest.

I always regretted not meeting Neil Armstrong. After NASA, he taught at University of Cincinnati.