45 years ago today 3 of the bravest sons of *****es to ever take a breath suited up and began their journey to the moon, to have the first human walk on another solar body.
NASA has had a special Twitter feed today recounting the pre-liftoff and liftoff action as if social media had existed then as it does today. Having grown up in Satellite Beach, yes named for the area and that most residents worked at PAFB or the Cape, our space program has always been one of my biggest interests and to me one of the highlights in American history.
It's well work going to the start of the feed and reading the tweets and viewing all of great pictures of the crew at breakfast, through suiting up, pre-flight checks and of course lift off.
I was only 2 when at the time of liftoff but I remember my mom telling me that the ground shook so hard, even some 40 miles from the tower, that many people had windows crack in their houses, the Saturn Vs were like earthquakes up and down the coast as they pushed out 7,500,000 million pounds of thrust.
Here is a link, you need to scroll a bit to find the start of the posts, but if you have any interest in this at all, it is worth it.
https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard/list...itter-accounts
