Watched Nova on PBS tonight. It was about the Apollo 8 mission which flew in December of 1968. This was the mission that allowed our astronauts to leave the earth and orbit the moon for the first time. The mission was necessary to test the new systems that would eventually allow Apollo 11 to take man to the surface of the moon.
In 1968 I was 10 years old and can’t say I really remember the events as they happened but more likely, I remember it as the events were retold later. That’s ok. I do remember watching the black and white TV as the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. That I do remember…