I was lucky - my father wasn't particularly interested in science but my mother was: SHE introduced ME to Star Trek. I imagine that it was her who got Dad to wake me up for the landing, for which I'm grateful as it's unlikely to happen again for a long time, judging by the last 30 years of no progress.
>I lived in Miami at the time. While I wasn't clueless about the unrest, I followed the space program very closely. But it was a fight uphill in my family....they had no scientific curiosity. I had to beg, borrow, and steal TV time for live NASA events.
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>>I guess I was fairly insulated from all the unrest of those times. Probably because we lived in a little farm town in rural Texas. But we followed the space program fervently. Every lift off, landing, space- and moon-walk, splash down, etc. But I was clueless of MLK and RFK assinations, riots, etc. So I have positive memories of that era.
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>>>It could be that we're just a big collection of nerds waxing nostalgic :-)
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>>>>>... It was, and remains, the greatest accomplishment in human history.
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>>>>Not to mention all the wonderful technological advances that came as a by-product of that space program. I was 8 at the time and totally fascinated. I vividly remember Apollo 13 also. I remember this because a friend of mine and I crucified some silly girl who had the nerve to pooh-pooh the seriousness nature that mission became.
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