Forty years ago, tonight we landed on the moon.
You know, one of the perks of being a "little older" is that you got to see some historic things, as they happened. Half of the people at work weren't alive when Armstrong and Aldrin kicked up the lunar dust. The difference in seeing it live for the first time is that you didn't know if it was really going to happen. We saw the blurry pictures and were amazed! To me, the fact that they made it safely back to Earth is slightly more amazing than the actual moon landing.
This was 1969! Most of the cars had manual roll-up windows and no air conditioning. Relative to today, it was a primitive time. Landing on the moon, in light of the lack of widespread technology, was really cool!
