Mastodawn

An early, but still vivid, formative memory of mine was watching the noisy, black & white video of the Apollo 11 mission. It was partly responsible for my enduring sense of awe and possibility, and probably the moment I knew I had to be a scientist or engineer.

Our world is going to hell in many ways, to be sure, but we're going to the moon again today, and I can't help but get excited about that.

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Phil Stevens

12h ago

@mattblaze My parents had just got our first color TV. I was a little bit disappointed that the simulation footage was sharp and colorful but the real thing was grainy and BW.

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Ralph Brandi

@phil_stevens @mattblaze We only had a black and white TV, so we went over to my grandparents’ house, because they had a color TV, smaller than our black and white but hey, color. And then yeah, the video from the moon was in black and white. I turned six the following week. I’ve had an enduring love of space ever since.