Space-themed coverage has been abundant in the days preceding the 50th anniversary of the mission that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon — even earning a hashtag: #Apollo50 — and these live-tweet sessions tend to be pretty gimmicky, but still: It’s cool to get sense of the actual pace of events on July 16, 1969, and imagining families huddled around their radios and TVs, following along with bated breath.
(May we also recommend Damien Chezelle’s overlooked 2018 gem, First Man.)
Follow along at @goCMNH.
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This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2019.
And let’s not forget the eight astronauts from this era who passed away during training or testing for spaceflight: Theodore Freeman, Elliot See, Charles Bassett, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger B. Chaffee, Clifton C. Williams and Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.