I was born in 1950. So as a boy I was completely obsessed with space, and the space program.
My dad worked as an engineer on many space related programs. I collected everything I could about the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo systems I could get. My room was filled with posters, models, and books about space.
I got to sit in a Mercury spacecraft at North American aviation.
Later I saw a Saturn V liftoff.
Today, I am 12 again.
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@corlin My dad did the thermal model of the space shuttle. Before that he was a PhD student at the University of Minnesota working for this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R._G._Eckert