I don’t have a good moon-landing story. Forty years ago, I was 15. I watched the grainy, black-and-white video of the landing on a snowy, black-and-white TV. I always associate the moon landing — for some reason — with the Miracle Mets of 1969 and with my fervent participation that summer in a theater workshop for teens.
The space program and I grew up together. TV sets would be wheeled into my grade-school classrooms to watch the Mercury launches. I was as enthralled as any other kid back then. Then I went through as long period, as I suppose many baby boomers did, in which I was blase and apathetic about the space program.
As an adult, though, I consider myself a space geek and devour anything I can find about it, especially those Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo years.
One of my favorites was the wonderful Tom Hanks-produced HBO series, “From the Earth to the Moon.” I especially love the theme song, which I give you here to celebrate this great day in human history: 01 From The Earth To The Moon Main Theme.m4a
What’s your moon-landing story?