Apollo 50th

50 years ago . . .

A full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket is projected onto the Washington Monument 50 years to the day after astronauts Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin launched on Apollo 11, the 1st mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. #Apollo50th https://t.co/wUm4JuUuVZ pic.twitter.com/ZqPKSJYs8H

— NASA HQ PHOTO (@nasahqphoto) July 17, 2019

And that's the way it is

We were watching the CBS Evening News the other night when anchor Scott Pelley took a moment to commemorate the 100th birthday of former CBS News anchorman, Walter Cronkite.  Having grown up in a family where both my grandfather and father were employed by CBS, watching Uncle Walter, "the most trusted man in America," was a daily event in our and most living rooms.

Nice to see this Google Doodle. Here are some of Cronkite's more memorable broadcasts, the moon landing being the one I remember most.