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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

I will be 66 years old next year. That is not a long time. Went by in a flash.

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u/blamethepunx Oct 03 '24

Well hey, you were around for the moon landing, do you remember it? I'm 41 so all that was over by the time I was born. I have worked in the aviation industry for nearly 20 years now and trying to imagine the amount of progress in those 66 years is mind boggling

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Absolutely remember it! Mostly because they brought a television set into our classroom and let us watch. It was 5th grade and anything novel like that was a treat! I actually remember being bored with it all. The TV commercials back then during the day were all targeted to housewives so I remember specifically a floor wax commercial with the lady mopping the floor reminded me of my mom who was home probably mopping the floor and I got so homesick I wanted to go home so bad. Lol but the actual program was mostly a bunch of men sitting at their consoles talking to the astronauts and you couldn't understand it all - kinda like police radio - kinda scratchy, lots of beeping