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For the oldies but goodies: Where were you in April of 1970?

Asked by msh (4270points) December 21st, 2015

For all conscious in the 1960’s-1970’s, the Apollo Space Program was a definite topic that most knew of, and watched on television. It was something that had never been done before (aside from the backyard Red Flyer attempts) and captured people’s imaginations around the world. Yes, even those who believed that it was all carried out on a sound stage.
Apollo 13 is currently being aired on a TV channel. It is one of my ‘top 3 fav movies’, probably in first place. I’ve seen it twenty bazillion times, and still react as if it were the first. Seeing what was happening from this perspective sure was different from what it was for all here in the public. It was as if the world stopped to watch the frightening scenario play out, just like they had when Neil Armstrong took that ‘small step’ a couple of years earlier.
Where were you? Did you watch it unfold? Did you see all of the news reports about the best to worst case outcomes? Times Square News Reader leads? The Pope’s mass for the crew? In-depth news coverage?
Now folks are hard-pressed to be able to have any knowledge of where, whom, or what astronauts are out and about and why.

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