America took a trip back in time and space this week to an event that changed the way we look at the world.
Apollo 11’s historic mission was must-see TV as it happened in 1969, and so it was again 50 years later on the anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon. It was an epic milestone worth all the hype and press it received, both then and now.
I was only 6 when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap in space, so my memory is based entirely on archive television footage and photo images beamed back to Earth. The emotions of watching that scene unfold in real time, especially not knowing how the story would end, had to be incredible, intense, if not surreal, no matter what your age.