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Mary Newcomer's avatar

It was a warm summer night. We pulled the TV out on our front porch. It made it surreal to be seeing it on the screen and looking up at the moon.:)

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Andy Alexis's avatar

When I was 16, my parents reconnected with old friends at a party; they were well off and living in West LA; their two slightly spoiled kids were part of a Space Science "colloquium" at the Museum of Science and Industry; a trip was planned to see the last Saturn V launch; Skylab. They were kind enough to slip me in at the last minute for my 17th birthday gift; it was a great thrill for me to see that, spoiled only by the kids of their friends being completely bored with the whole NASA thing. Maury and Sarah. Maury couldn't stop talking about the Marx Brothers and Don Mclean.

I took photos of the launch; the Saturn V went through low clouds pretty much right away, and a solar panel flew off during the ascent, so the next day's Saturn IB was cancelled. When I got home, I didn't finish the roll in the camera, and my sister used the camera, opening the back first to see if there was any film in it. Oops...I still have that undeveloped roll. I suppose it still might be ok to develop 50 years later.

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