<VV> My Plans for Monday

[Bill Hubbell]

I own Glenn's 1964 Corvair!  If not for the fact that I will be out of town Monday, I would sit in that car and pretend it was Freedom 7. 

As for me, I was almost 15 years old on July 20th 1969 and stayed up all night glued to the TV. We did not get our first Corvair until the following year. I do still have many of the models I built of Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury spacecraft at the time, however, as well as a box of newspaper clippings of the event. 

My older brother (now deceased) actually managed to attend the launch of Apollo 11 (at the age of 18) with a press pass from a local radio station.

Man, I miss him...


Bill Hubbell 

-----Original Message-----
From: "henry kaczmarek" <kaczmarek at charter.net>

Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:02:12 
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Subject: Re: <VV> My Plans for Monday


I was 12 when the first moon landing took place.  I started school the Sept 
after Glenn went up, and I can remember sitting at my little table at home 
watching  the lift off.  Back in the 60's little boys all wanted to be 
astronauts, not so many after seeing Life Magazine with the charred Apollo 1 
capsule, and knowing 3 men died in it.

Grade school teachers made much of every space flight, and constantly told 
us to watch "history being made".

Also proud of the fact that the first man on the moon was an Eagle Scout. 
Don't think they named the LEM because of the award, but for the symbol of 
our nation.

Extra credit question, off list replies only----When Armstrong stepped off 
the LEM, which foot hit the lunar surface first, and was there a reason why?

Hank 

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