So...I was three years old (almost) when this went through the first time.
"This" being Apollo 11, the mission which landed on the moon 40 years ago this week. NASA is re-running the audio tapes over the web, timed so that the landing will take place exactly forty years to the moment after the original landing.
I'm afraid I'm a bit slow to tell you for you to hear the Liftoff announcement (about twelve minutes ago, as I write this), but in about three days or so, they're going to get to the exciting bits (touchdown on the lunar surface, and Armstrong's botched line - it was supposed to be "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind").
I have a suspicion I'll be leaving it running for the whole time. :)
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