In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first walk on the moon, I want to tell you a family story: As my mom tells it, when I was a baby, she was so excited about the moon landing that she woke me up and put me in a bouncy seat in front of the television so I could later say I saw it.
Thing is, I wasn't born until two years later.
And Mom can't figure out which poor baby--was it a cousin? a friend?--she did wake up, or if she imagined it at all!
So, even though I didn't actually see it, Mom, I do have a special fondness for that first moonwalk!
I can tell you that I put Wendy in front of the television during the moon landing. She was 3 months old, but back then it wasn't a bouncy seat...it was just an infant seat, a precursor to a bouncy. I was very interested in the space program and watched most of the launches and returns. It was so exciting and certainly not taken for granted like most launches and landings are now.
ReplyDeleteMany years later, when she was working at NASA and I was working at the hardware store, she called to alert us that the space shuttle was going to be visible to us as it headed toward a Florida landing. So, most of the employees went outside at the designated time and we did, indeed, see the shuttle. It was absolutely amazing!