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A Love Story by Anna Leahy and Douglas R. Dechow

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Doug’s First Memory: Moon Landing | #IAmGenSpace

March 12, 2017 By GenSpace Leave a Comment

Douglas R. Dechow remembers in an excerpt from Generation Space:

My first conscious memory: a flickering image of a single man clambering down the ladder of an insect-like spaceship and planting his oversized boots on the Moon, with the deep black of the universe beyond the white spacesuit. Now in my late forties, I wasn’t yet three years old when Apollo 11 made it to the Moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969. My mother had plunked me in front of the family television set in the den that would become my bedroom a few years later. I sat in the middle of the carpeted floor with my parents, one of them cradling my brother behind me on the green upholstered couch, to watch the event along with an estimated five hundred million other viewers worldwide. Somehow, I knew that the hazy black-and-white images of two men in gleaming spacesuits were important. There were people inside those bulky, bouncing spacesuits; I listened to their crackling voices. The Moon seemed a place I might visit someday. Upon that image of the Moon landing, everything I have experienced and know has been built.

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I AM GEN SPACE

September 19, 2016 By Anna

We are Generation Space. Are you?

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The two of us never knew a world without space flight.All of us born between Sputnik in 1957 and the first space shuttle mission in 1981 are Generation Space, indebted to those who came before and the potential of Generation Mars. When we talk about all this–the Moon landing, the space shuttle, the promise of Mars–people often say, I am Generation Space too!

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