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Originally Posted by JayUtah
I've been interested in Apollo since the missions were flown.
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Oh, so your'e a johnny-come-lately. I made a scale model of the
CSM when I was in junior high school, out of wood, shaped on my
dad's lathe, before the first plastic model kit came out in 1967.
My model was dimensioned from a poster about the Apollo project
that I got in 1965 or 1966, though I can't recall or imagine where I
could possibly have acquired it. It wasn't folded, so it must have
been rolled. Huh. Wonder where I got it.... Maybe a present from
my parents, or my grandmother. Where did she find it? Bookstore?
Anyhow, I've been following Space exploration since the 1950's,
perhaps with the series of Disney movies, or the launch of Sputnik,
or the attempts to launch Vanguard. My mother says I was
fascinated by a series TV programs about the stars when I was
four, which would have been circa 1957.
In the late 1960's I read "The Interrupted Journey", which was a
watershed publication in UFOlogy, but that is the only such book
I ever read. I found it nearly convincing, but not quite.
I don't recall ever running into any UFO believers or Apollo hoax
believers before the computer networking era, but I did run into a
guy who received messages from the USS Enterprise... I didn't try
to argue with that....
I was co-sysop of the Minnesota Space Frontier Society BBS from
the late 1980's through the mid-1990's, and posted in the Fidonet
astronomy and Space echos. There I argued with a number of
cranks, on the presumption that if somebody gave out wrong info,
and nobody else corrected it, I had to....
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis