We were on vacation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Our parents took us to some fake-Western theme park (whose name I can’t remember) that featured saloon girls, Sarsaparilla, and shootouts. We were in the Red Dog Saloon (for some reason I remember that), probably enjoying the family-friendly floor show. Then someone cleared the stage, and placed a television on a chair. #
It was in this unlikely setting that I, my family, and a few dozen others cheered when the Eagle landed. #
This weekend, a Facebook post by Cynthia Gentry led me to wechoosethemoon.org, a project by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to replay, in real time, Apollo XI’s VOX communications from liftoff to landing. Warning – it’s addictive. #
The Library has also registered three Twitter accounts and is Tweeting select transmissions. #
Even as Apollo XI was in space, dependent on computers and comlinks for success, what would become the Internet and The World Wide Web was beginning to take shape. #
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