Stefan Edward JonesThe teacher wheeled a big old B&W TV into my 3rd grade classroom so we could see the reentry and splashdown of Apollo 13.
Damn, the cheering when we saw the parachutes.
I know the stakes and risks a lot more now. Nerve wracking.
Grassroots JoeWe watched the Apollo 11 moon landing sitting on the lawn outside of a guest lodge looking at a TV sitting in a window facing out at sleep-away camp.
I was a preteen at the time, very much into the space program since Mercury. I would bring a small(ish) transistor radio to grade school with an earphone that I would snake up my sleeve so I could surreptitiously listen to the launches. No way my teachers didn't know; fortunately they were happy to pretend they didn't.