Just in case anyone here could possibly have forgotten, today marks the 38th anniversary of mankind's first landing on our nearest solar neighbor - the moon.
I was just short of my 10th birthday at the time and I remember being allowed to stay up as late as it took to watch the whole event unfold on a tiny B&W TV screen at our home at the time in Ohio. I didn't
sleep a wink the whole night.
When the transmission came through "the Eagle has landed" I think I might have had my first experience at something that was so exciting it was very nearly sexual for a 9-year old. Even back then I was an enthusiastic supporter of the space program and more specifically _manned_ space exploration.
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