On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Scott Staedeli wrote:

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I _am_ a GEnXer, and I worshipped Jules Bergmann as a child. Some of my first memories is pressing my nose up to the tv, watching Saturn V's lifting off. If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to take the Saturn

At 10:50 AM 1/23/96 -0800, Simon Spero wrote: that's

Bollocks. If you can remember Saturn Vs taking off before reruns, you're too old!

Simon (27th July 1969, nearly called Neil)

In 1975, I lived in a small suburb of Kansas City, and went with my grandfather from Kansas City Airport on a chartered Boeing 747 to see the Apollo part of the Apollo/Soyuz rocket "blast off". (the whole thing was arranged my a local group of bigwigs, I think.) ( I think it was a Saturn V, but correct me if I'm wrong. I was young and impressionable.) First and last large rocket I saw go in person; I was sincerely impressed; it was extremely LOUD and we were kept MILES away on a grandstand. (But we were the closest you could get, as I understand it, as we were invited guests of the whole thing.) Incidentally, flying on the same airplane from Kansas City were: 1. Susan Ford, daughter of President Gerald Ford. 2. Dr. Werner Von Braun. ob crypto: Uh, none, sorry.