(12-10-2023, 01:50 AM)DaphneApollo Wrote: Why is my name Daphne Apollo- Daphne is my name - Apollo is for Apollo 11 to the Moon launch.
I was 2.5 years old watching this launch, my Mom said I couldn’t possibly remember it, but I do, 10,9,8 ……..blast off! No sounds on the street, no train or airplanes going above or beside us, just this once in a lifetime event. And probably why I watch planes and wait for others to show up.
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I find that quite incredible you remember that launch at such a young age!
My brother is like that whereas me everything pre-teen is a distant blur, probably a combination of a high fever (109F) near death when I was 8 yrs old, later followed by a brain trauma injury when I was 14.
The deity Apollo, recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. Flipping back to space I've always been fascinated with Wernher von Braun for various reasons.
My favorite (enhanced for headphones, volume cranked to 11) launch vid:
Cern - The Message (Magdelayna's Apollo Mix) [2015]
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell