Time Frame I.V.

[Robin Landseadel]

As far back as 1962, the year of John Glenn's orbits 'round the earth,
my father would give us all "rocket rides" in the process of tucking
us kids into bed, complete with the "10,9,8. . ." countdown, then
lifting us over his head, and then "flying" us to our beds. We watched  
the
morning TV broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, and I  supplemented that
by checking out the morning papers for additional info. When my first  
grade
teacher found out that I was more up to speed on LOX and other elements
of rocket science than she, there was some consternation and confusion
over at Franklin Elementary, followed by batteries of I.Q. tests.  
Seems as
though the faculty had me pegged as a feeb.

By the time we figured that we weren't gonna be on any space mission,
there was a new space program, kicked off by MKULTRA. I'm sure
that's gonna get some play in I.V., as it seems to be hinted at a lot
in CoL49.

On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:07 AM, David Morris wrote:

> I remember my family driving from LA to our new home in Virginia in
> 1968, three kids in the back of a VW wagon.  And Esso was giving away
> free paper-craft sheets of a lunar-lander model.  I must have folded a
> dozen or so of these as we did the cross-country trek!
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:40 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the '60s as The Space Age.  I was  
>> in sleepaway camp when the astronauts landed on the moon.  The damn  
>> counselors wouldn't let us stay up to watch it on TV.  I remember  
>> weeping in my bunk and fantasizing that the lunar landing would be  
>> called off at the last minute:  "Wait, we've decided there's no way  
>> we can walk on the moon without bringing along an 11-year-old girl,  
>> whom we'll pick at random..."