50 years of manned space flight

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so many of the pictures, stories, and games of my childhood were of rockets and space travel.  Pop culture reflected this eg. My Favourite Martian, The Jetsons, 2001 A Space Odyssey, and of course David Bowie's Major Tom.

A father of one of my friends at school worked on the Apollo project, and so we often got to see 8mm films from NASA hot-off-the-press as it were. Truly inspiring to a boy in the early 70s.... on the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon, my mother took my brother and I out of school, and made us sit in front of the black-and-white TV screen and watch the grainy images of Armstrong & Aldrin step out onto the moon surface.