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mesrikyesterday at 4:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Also to get the mood and sense how it felt following those flights media outlets back then there is great site

https://apolloinrealtime.org/

I've listened through those flights few times and it still each time takes me back to memories still giving me goosebumps. Especially Apollo 11 when I was nine year old kid listening tiny battery radio all nights at our summer cottage attic.


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scrumperyesterday at 6:08 PM

I don’t usually get parenting right but the stars lined up for this one: I got hold of the Lego Saturn V kit (1969 pieces!) and my two kids and I built it over a few days while listening to this in the background. Last piece on right about the time “the Eagle has landed.”

It is a fantastic site.

hmokiguessyesterday at 5:40 PM

That's so cool. I feel like society did a bad job passing on the torch of that throughout history to the newer generation, especially outside the US (I'm not an American), so a lot of us are really disconnected with what went down outside of the US.