In NOLA, cars pulled to side of street all had radios on.
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I was 9 and it was absolutely thrilling.
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My Dad was glued to the TV watching Frank McGee broadcast this on NBC . He bought every magazine, newspaper he could find in Boston. This was such an exciting moment.
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In Junior High 7th grade Lakewood Ohio we all went to the auditorium I was on the balcony and we all sat together and watched on the big screen on the stage the launch. Imagine
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This was so special and exciting to me as a kid...watching it on black and white tv.
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Looks like a toy compared to now.
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Saw it live in my 3rd grade classroom on a 12 inch screen b & w tv.
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It’s amazing how relativity puny the rocket motor on the Redstone was compared with today’s launch vehicles. We’ve come a long way.
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It was just a sub-orbital flight -- straight up and down off the coast. And it was just a few weeks later that President Kennedy announced to Congress that we would go to the Moon -- "take longer strides".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUXuV7XbZvU …
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May 5th is Alan Shepard Day or also known as American Astronauts Daypic.twitter.com/X2mzdPQC9R
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“Fix your little problem and light this candle”
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Those Nazis put together quite a distracting & profligate project.pic.twitter.com/kL7hINPbdg
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I remember we all got to watch it together in class. Very exciting.
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Great memory and photo! Thanks for posting it.
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We remember.
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Where's all the fire and smoke and vapor and whatnot? It looks like hardly anything is coming out of the bottom of that rocket except a laser beam.
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Remember it vividly. I was in 4th grade, the whole school watched.
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TY for remembering! From a proud New Hampshireite!
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I was 6 weeks old. What has been done during my lifetime is amazing.
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