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Very nice. I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch the coverage (I was 9 at the time). I still have the newspaper I saved:
http://theodorakis.net/images/newspaper_moon_landing.jpg
NICE!
My father got me up to watch too. I don't have anything as cool as newspaper though.
Funny thing is, that I had forgotten it (newspaper referenced in above comment) still existed. A few years ago, after my Mom died, my sibs and I were clearing out the house. There was an old desk in the garage, and when I looked inside it, I found it there.