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“Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landin…” — David Grinspoon

Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you'll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.
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