I've talked many times before about how significant the Viking Mars landings were to me. While I have it on good authority that I saw Neil Armstrong's big step on TV, I'd been too young to have any firm idea of what was going on with the Apollo Moon program until it was almost over, and even then I had no idea that people hadn't been visiting the Moon since time immemorial (I suppose they literally had been, for me).
the moon landing was a very big deal for me, because I wa in kindergarten at the time, and both my teacher and Kaptain Kangaroo talked about the moon landing, and I saw the stuff on the news. the day it happened, I remember running out in my grandparents' back yard and looking up at the moon, because I somehow thought I could see them.
after that, I was crazy about space and science. I insisted on getting Tang and those astroc snacks that looked sort of like a tiny Slim Jim but were made of peanut butter. I wound up getting lots of How&Why books and also subscribing to a science book series. each month, you'd get two small books on two different science subjects; they came with stickers you pasted into the books at specific locations, which makes it sound like a low-end activity book, but they were actually pretty intelligently written, with lots of diagramss.
since then, of course, I've drifted more towards film and literature and away from science, but I'm glad I have that background. I still have that optimism; unlike many people who feel that science is dangerous and has done a great deal of harm, I think it's mainly people who have done the harm. I blame society.
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Date: 2004-10-05 05:47 am (UTC)the moon landing was a very big deal for me, because I wa in kindergarten at the time, and both my teacher and Kaptain Kangaroo talked about the moon landing, and I saw the stuff on the news. the day it happened, I remember running out in my grandparents' back yard and looking up at the moon, because I somehow thought I could see them.
after that, I was crazy about space and science. I insisted on getting Tang and those astroc snacks that looked sort of like a tiny Slim Jim but were made of peanut butter. I wound up getting lots of How&Why books and also subscribing to a science book series. each month, you'd get two small books on two different science subjects; they came with stickers you pasted into the books at specific locations, which makes it sound like a low-end activity book, but they were actually pretty intelligently written, with lots of diagramss.
since then, of course, I've drifted more towards film and literature and away from science, but I'm glad I have that background. I still have that optimism; unlike many people who feel that science is dangerous and has done a great deal of harm, I think it's mainly people who have done the harm. I blame society.