I think it was Jerry Pournelle who said (paraphrasing) “I feel incredibly fortunate to have witness the first man to walk on the moon, and am increasingly horrified that I’ve witnessed the last...”

I remember watching the Apollo XI landing at a friends house; both our families go together to watch it and make a party of sorts. Somewhere at home, I may even still have the commemorative coin set we got as premiums from the Gulf station (iirc; next time I’m at Mom’s house I should see if she still has ‘em); I also remember getting a cardboard punch-out-and-assemble LEM model from them at the same time:  http://bestride.com/news/entertainment/gas-station-giveaway-toys (has a link to a downloadable reconstruction: http://papermodelingman.com/gallery_models_apollo.html ) and can attest that yes they were indeed ‘insanely difficult to assemble’.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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On 1/8/19, 6:06 PM, "xxxxxx@simplelists.com on behalf of Rupert Boleyn" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com on behalf of xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm young enough that I have conscious memory of even the last moon

landing (though I was at school at the time, it wasn't newsworthy

enough). However, my parents are/were both SF and fantasy fans and I

grew up on AC Clarke, Heinlein, and Asimov stories (not to forget Van

Vogt, Niven, & etc.). This timeline we're on has proven to be most

disappointing.