Introduction
When I was a young boy, one sweltering night in Deerfield, Illinois, just as I was falling asleep my father burst into my room, “Douglas. Get up. It’s time. You need to see this.” Normally my mother would have protested, but not for this.
I followed my father down to the family room where we sat in silence in front of our 12-inch black-and-white Zenith television. He turned to me and said, “Don’t ever forget you saw this.”
We watched for several minutes while my father continued to adjust the rabbit-ear antennae. Eventually on our tiny TV, a little white blob emerged from a bigger grayish blob, descended a bit, and a crackly voice announced: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
I’m sure my dad was choked ...
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