Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

Archive: April 1973

April 22, 1973

My Last Entry for a While

I've been keeping this notebook since 1957. The Apollo program is over. Skylab is still going. I'm going to write one more time before I put it away for a while.
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Reflections April 1, 1973

Eleven Years of Clippings

I went through my clipping folder last weekend. Seventeen shoeboxes. Twelve years of newspaper articles, radio transcripts, magazine features, mission summaries. Betty watched me spread them across the living room floor and said, "I told you so." She was right. I have a problem. It's a wonderful problem to have.
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