Yesterday, Jul 20, was the 42nd anniversary of the first 'humanned' mission to another world!

And the only mention of it on Democratic Underground was in the DU Lounge!

Some quotes from that thread:

A friend put it into context - the late 60's and early 70's were almost like having a slice of time that belonged in the mid-21st Century that somehow got plopped back to the mid-20th Century.

And the first decades of the 21st Century feel like a slice of time from the late 19th Century inserted into the 21st. God, I wish we were still the young, vibrant, can-do country that sent humans to the moon! I pray, I pray that we haven't completely lost that country!

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.