In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, check out these websites. One, called We Choose the Moon, is a real-time, interactive recreation of the mission sponsored by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum (it may load slowly and it is very visual/graphic intense with numerous links to explore). Another is 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum where we found this image and many more.
A few interesting facts: in 1969, the US median income was $8,389; a first class stamp cost 6¢; gas was 35 cents a gallon and the New York Times best seller list included: Love Machine (Susann); Portnoy's Complaint (Roth); Godfather (Puzo); Ada, or Ardor (Nabokov); and Slaughterhouse-5 (Vonnegut). Do you remember the moon landing?
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