At 10:50 AM 1/23/96 -0800, Simon Spero wrote:
Bollocks. If you can remember Saturn Vs taking off before reruns, you're too old!
Popping up the People's Chronology under Microsoft Bookshelf: "Exploration and Colonization, 1975 The first U.S.-Soviet space linkup takes place July 18. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton, and Van D. Brand exchange visits 140 miles above Earth with cosmonauts Aleksei A. Leonov and Valery N. Kubasov whose Soyuz spacecraft lands safely in the Soviet Union July 21. The Apollo astronauts splash down in the Pacific 3 days later, ending the Apollo missions." My wetware informs me that this was the last Saturn V launch (for which NASA sacrificed a Moon mission. The last baby boomer was born in 1964 (or so). So a GenXer would be old enough to remember a Saturn V launch. I don't remember when Jules stopped broadcasting. DCF "BTW, the *first* Boomer was not born on January 1 1946. That event occurred at some indeterminate point later in the year when the first child was born to a discharged veteran. That child would have been conceived in September 1945. June 1st 1945 is a better approximation of the beginning of the Boom."