>I'm sorry I only had the chance to watch those amazing Apollo years from afar. Must have been a fantastic experience.
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>BTW, I'm sure they did go to the moon. Human history shows you have to make the big steps asap before it becomes too expensive. In this case it is too expensive to repeat a moon visit until we see the next technology breakthrough... unless the Chinese decide it is worth spending $$$$ to show who is boss.

It really was amazing. We were in a visitor area where the vibration was so much that some people actually got sick. My glasses were visibly vibrating on my nose. The noise was intense - Holding your ears didn't do much because the vibrations in your hands would hurt more. I heard later that that area was closed for subsequent Saturn 5 shots.

Shuttle shots are great too - not as violent but you can feel the vibrations for probably 20 minutes after launch. I was in college in Daytona Beach in those days - we had visitor passes to STS1 through STS24. The last Challenger flight was the one we didn't go to, although we watched it from my back porch in Daytona.