To this day it still amazes me that we made it to the Moon using computers that today would be less than high power calculators, and in spacecraft made out of foil and duct tape.
Well, maybe not THAT simplistic, but still! We made it to the Moon and back again!
Apollo 13 came back using foil and duct tape. 
That was as amazing as any of the landings.
Which shows you that you CAN do anything with duct tape 
It occurs to me that in some ways it’s easier to build a spacecraft than, say, a submarine. What’s the internal pressure of an Apollo Command Module? 5 psi? 8 psi? A thin titanium shell would suffice. Were it not for the heat, aluminum would do. But a submarine has to withstand several atmospheres. To me it sounds like a much more daunting task.
I’ve never been fortunate enough to visit the Air & Space Museum, but I do have a large model of a Mercury capsule and I’ve seen many photos. The first thing that struck me was, ‘Hey, the inside of this thing looks a lot like an airplane cockpit!’
Oh yes. There were many pubs around, the Fort St George, the Brown Cow, etc., but on that occasion the Eagle was the obvious choice. 
One thing I remember about the Apollo 13 crisis was that in church there were prayers for the safety of the astronauts. Our congregation wasn’t very outward looking at all, it was almost as if the real world didn’t exist. So to have some “non-routine” like this included was a surprise to me.
I was 8 years old and on vacation with my family in Wellfleet, MA, when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon. The cottage we were staying in didn’t have a television, so my parents looked through the windows of the cottage next door and saw it on their TV. I don’t remember it; I suspect I was probably asleep while they were out playing Peeping Tom.
And I was born.
Sorry I missed this thread on my actual birthday. 
Man, the things I missed out on. The first space related thing I remember seeing on TV was the Challenger. Bummer.
Yep, me too! I was THIS MANY (holds up four fingers)!
I wonder if my mom looked at me and thought, “She’s going to grow up in a world where this is no big deal.”