Cocoa High 65 - Page One

July 20, 2005 | Vol. 2 Issue 6

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July 20, 1969
How time flies. July 20th, 2004 - the day after our official launch - was the 35th anniversary of 1969’s Apollo 11 and astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the moon! We were gathered with friends in Gainesville around a b&w portable t.v., listening to Walter Cronkite broadcast the event on CBS.

Our playgrounds were beaches, rivers, and orange groves. Going to the Big City meant a run over to Orlando’s Steak ’n Shake or Ronnie’s, on Colonial. Remember Florida before air conditioning? Or how it felt waiting for the bus when the mosquito control spray planes fogged the whole county? Say, wasn’t that...DDT?

For us, the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air most likely meant another launch that went haywire, ending up with someone hitting the destruct button and another million bucks of rocket up in smoke. The eyes of the world were on us — and life was great.