It took a while for us to see the crisp images from Apollo 11, such as today's Astronomy Picture of the Day, as the initial images were somewhat grainy black and white television shots. I still remember that thrill (and the bigger thrill of the audio-only landing in which we ignorant "civilians" did not know of the drama of rocks and craters on the ground and computer overloads and low fuel warnings in the craft) and the thrill when the newspapers and magazines (especially Life and National Geographic) published the beautiful color images.
Drink it in. Dream mighty things.
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