50 years ago this event took place

[Koch Ebola]

It was the Apollo 8 space mission. Did you watch it on T.V? Or were at the launching site in Florida?
It was a nice way to end a turbulent year.

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[dameatball]

1. Wasn't at the launch site, but lived close enough to see all the launches and the stage separations

I used to wade fish the Mosquito Lagoon area and many of the small tidal canals near the cape. After the Challenger disaster they closed a lot of the little access roads so people were not able to get as close as previously. Same thing happened offshore and in airspace.

[Yonnie3]

2. Missed it entirely

I was in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Only communication technology was a telegraph wire one mile away.

[rsdsharp]

3. I vividly recall Frank Borman

reading Genesis on Christmas Eve 1968. It was my father's last Christmas. I was 14.

[Glorfindel]

4. Watched it on TV. It helped to soothe the still-fresh hurt of

Hubert Humphey's election loss to Tricky Dick Nixon. Altogether, a pretty terrible year, except for the fact that I got out of the Army and then this astonishing moon orbit.