Watching the PBS series on NASA this evening

[Lydia Leftcoast]

is a nostalgic experience for me. I remember that they brought a TV into my classroom so we could watch Alan Sheppard being launched into space. The following year, now at another school, we were herded into the auditorium to watch John Glenn being launched on the first U.S. orbital flight.

But it's not only the memories of the events: it's the memories of an America with a positive, can-do attitude, one in which everyone felt that life was steadily getting better for everyone.

I miss that America. It seems to have vanished into history.

I think we lost it with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the election of Richard Nixon.

[rurallib]

1. shoot - we are not getting that tonight. What is the program

so I can watch for it. Is it a NOVA episode or is NASA in the title?
I am taping stuff like this to show to our mentees.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. It's a stand-alone series called Space Age: NASA's Story

It's in 4 parts, and it may turn up on your station at some point.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. True story

my brother graduates from High School... you'd think I'd be there with the rest of proud parents

No...I was on my dad's shoulder, watching Armstrong do his walk on moon, OUTSIDE that boring school thing.

That is actually my first memory. You know the black and white grainy footage, and since that was in Mexico... Zabludovsky (think Cronkite, same thing... he is still working) translating NASA... and oy his earphones, they were HUGE.

But I remember clearly Armstrong jumping onto the moon and to this day that photo of that boot is still in my mind. I was oh... two and change.

(I need to do math and remember months here)