I was reminding the spousal unit of the days when an astronaut launch and recovery would have had every TV in the nation and much of the world tuned in. Now, it's a fraction of us who watch on YouTube.
Maybe it's the absence of Jules Bergman ? 😉
Looks like about 24 people at that control center. I seem to recall a room of 100+ people with all sorts of equipment back in the day.
Too bad this stuff doesn’t get the media attention anymore. We need more kids interested in the sciences and tech, I would think stuff like this might still be interesting to some.
I think it’s more of generation “Don’t give a $}{!T” / everybody owes me something.
They get taught no REAL HISTORY anymore, half of them think the U.S. started WWII when we nuked Japanese cities and then they attacked Pearl Harbor.
They don’t know or understand the U.S. Constitution.
And they just don’t care unless it’s all about them.
I knew it was going to happen soon, but I didn’t see any publicity for it.
I watched the replay on YouTube already, but I wanted to see it live.