“Everyone alive on July 20, 1969,” the radio commentator said with an intonation reserved for weekend filler copy, “remembers exactly where they were when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.” Except me. I was 15 when Michael Collins, alone in Columbia, the lunar command module, kept the motor running while Buzz and Neil descended for humanity’s greatest photo op.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/insider/now-from-someone-totally-oblivious-on-july-20-1969