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SURE DOES NOT FEEL 40 YEARS FROM OUR LAST MOON MISSION ...I REMEMBER AT 7 YEARS OLD LISTENING TO KENNEDY SAYING TO THE WORLD WE WILL LAND ON THE MOON BEFORE THE SIXTIES ENDED .GOING TO SCHOOL AND TALKING ABOUT IT ...THE EXCITEMENT OF IT ALL .THE FIRST FLIGHT ..THE FIRST MAN OUTSIDE OF A SHIP...THE FIRST TRIP TO AND BACK FROM THE MOON ..FAST FORWARD TO 1969.. THE FAMILY THE WORLD GATHERED AROUND THE BLACK AND WHITE TURN THE CHANEL BY HAND WITH RABBIT EARS TV.S WITH ONLY THREE STATIONS TO WATCH ..WE WATCHED WALTER CRONKITE ...NOT A CREATURE WAS MOVING WHEN WE SAW ARMSTRONGS FIRST STEP..THE PRIDE EXCITEMENT ALL BUILT UP CANT BE MEASURED..I REMEMBER RIDING BACK TO CC FROM ROCKPORT IN OUR 56 DESOTO AND LOOKING UP AT THE MOON KNOWING SOMEONE WAS THERE .I REMEMBER 1970 GETTING TO SEE APOLLO 11[ I THINK] IT WAS ON ITS WAY BACK FROM THE MOON WITH OUR BINOCULAR 10MIN .TO 10 PM ...THEN SEEING APOLLO 17 FLY OVER CC AT 12 HIGH AT 12 OCLOCK NOON WITH CLEAR SKYS .IT LOOKED LIKE A LARGE CIGAR ..I LOOK UP EVERY NIGHT AND GET EXCITED TO SEE THE SPACE STATION FLY OVER.... GOING BACK IN TIME I SURE MISS THOSE DAYS NOT JUST THE SPACE PROGRAM THEN .BUT HAVING THE GRANDPARENTS .ANTS AND UNCLES .MON AND DAD WHO ARE ALL GONE NOW INJOY LIFE ......SOMETIMES ITS HARD TO LOOK BACK .BUT THE MEMORIES .WOW ..