• TheOneAndOnly
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    14 days ago

    How did Regan start his speech that day? Hope you all enjoyed the fireworks this morning!

    What’s worse than glass in your baby food? Astronauts in your tunafish.

    Seriously, though… As someone who watched this happen on TV in their school gym with the rest of my class, (and who was a huge space nerd, to boot), this was an extremely emotional event.

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      14 days ago

      Yes it was. Our generation’s Kennedy assassination. I was in 3rd grade and this launch was hyped in school more than anything before it.

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        13 days ago

        Same. 3rd grade, and into the gym we went to watch it on TV. Definitely heard a number of my classmates blame, “…the damn Russians”, naturally, having been raised in small town America, smack in the middle of the Cold War.