Comments on: Moon Memory http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/21/moon-memory/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dad http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/21/moon-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-58287 Dad Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:30:37 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/?p=277#comment-58287 I'd say that the most dubious part of your seeming recollection is that of a six month old's remembering or understanding, “There are people up there!” So far as I know, a six month old is preverbal. I’d say that the most dubious part of your seeming recollection is that of a six month old’s remembering or understanding, “There are people up there!” So far as I know, a six month old is preverbal.

]]> By: Mark Bessey http://www.fascinationplace.org/2009/07/21/moon-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-58285 Mark Bessey Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:41:16 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/?p=277#comment-58285 I was too young to have seen the first Moon landing, but I do remember watching one of the later ones on TV - probably Apollo 16 or 17. I would have been about 3 years old at the time. As far as the fascination with going into space, I think that's something that some people have, and others, not so much. I remember talking this over with some of my schoolmates around the time of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The discussion went something like this: "Would you have signed up to go into space, if the opportunity presented itself?". For some of us, the question didn't even merit discussion - OF COURSE we'd go. Others just didn't see the appeal. I've never been able to articulate what it is about space travel that's so appealing, but I suspect it's a combination of sci-fi romantic ideals, and the desire to do something only a very small number of people have ever done. If someone from NASA had showed up at our school the day after the accident and said "We're looking for volunteers for the first high school student in space", they would have had more than enough volunteers just from my immediate circle of friends. I was too young to have seen the first Moon landing, but I do remember watching one of the later ones on TV – probably Apollo 16 or 17. I would have been about 3 years old at the time. As far as the fascination with going into space, I think that’s something that some people have, and others, not so much.

I remember talking this over with some of my schoolmates around the time of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The discussion went something like this: “Would you have signed up to go into space, if the opportunity presented itself?”. For some of us, the question didn’t even merit discussion – OF COURSE we’d go. Others just didn’t see the appeal. I’ve never been able to articulate what it is about space travel that’s so appealing, but I suspect it’s a combination of sci-fi romantic ideals, and the desire to do something only a very small number of people have ever done.

If someone from NASA had showed up at our school the day after the accident and said “We’re looking for volunteers for the first high school student in space”, they would have had more than enough volunteers just from my immediate circle of friends.

]]>