Apollo 11, 40 years ago
Apollo 11, 40 years ago
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I remember when it happened. I was in Edinburgh on vacation with my parents. Everyone was so excited, and watched it on TV. People kept coming up to us saying things like, "Oh, you Americans must be so proud" or "You Americans have really done it this time!"
At the time, with the Concorde having recently come out, and with the US going to the moon, it just seemed like travel was going to explode, and that soon we'd be going anywhere, and faster all the time.
But that wasn't to be. We only went to the moon a few times, and then stopped. The whole Concorde thing fizzled too.
And travel is probably worse now than it was in the 1960s--airlines are so crowded, and the passengers are treated like cattle.