Apollo 11

So hard to believe, that it has been 50  years ago!

We had arrived in the United States, in June, right after school ended in Germany for my sister and I.
I was sent off to Washington State to visit with my uncle Doug, mother's younger brother, for a week.
Mom and Dad went shopping for a home in South Carolina (shudder!!!!).
And we met up in Florida.

First stop was the Space center at Cape Kennedy.
Father had worked for Werner Von Braun during the War.
So reunion time for them!
My sister and I made a day of it playing on the crawler carrying the Apollo 11 rocket!
It moved very slowly down the tarmac, the rocket towering above us.
The crawler was huge, it seemed like the size of a foot ball field!
Numerous sets of tank treads.
And a huge rocket standing there at attention!


Eventually the two adults finished and we could leave for some serious beach time!

Yes, with our FBI agents in tow.
The ubiquitous federal babysitters!
Ugh!

Now, it is 50 years later.
The moon was ours for a few moments
 Now long ignored.
The PBS special was excellent.

And I got extremely interested in how rockets work!
So much so, that I was to assigned to the Apollo's Internal Upper Stage,
For the Saturn 5 rocket!

Saturn 5 had been the work of Swede while he was still in college!!!!!

Gotta admit we have a moment in history here as we prepare to return to the moonj, with an option for Mars.