Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

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I Looked Up Last Night
Apollo 11 July 25, 1969

I Looked Up Last Night

Apollo 11 splashed down safely on Thursday. Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins are home. But last night I walked outside and looked up at the Moon, and it was different. It looked different. Not because anything had changed about the Moon. Because something had changed about me. About us. It's not…
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