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However, it was in my lifetime that this reality would shift.  \nIn 1961, our President, John F. Kennedy announced the beginning of the race to space. We would commit resources and finances to compete with the Russians with the ultimate goal of a moon landing by the end of the decade.  \nI grew up in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. In the early 1960s, while still in grade school, the space program took on the aspect of a combination of two very dissimilar concepts. The first was the idea that man, in all its genius, was able to conquer space. It would no longer be a world where the “man in the moon” would be a figure of speech, but an actual place. The second concept that spurred the enthusiasm was the push to “beat the Russians”. The cold war had taken the safety from our lives – leaving us school children to learn where the nearest air raid shelter was located and to practice curling up and covering our heads in the school gymnasium. So, with both pride and  \n* Investigadora independente. E-mail: [rhino@sapo.pt](rhino@sapo.pt).  \nthe determination to win, our school provided televised broadcasts ofthe early flights. All the students were taken to the auditorium where we watched these space launches. I can no longer remember what type of audio-visual equipment was used, but I remember the teachers and the principal trying to coax out a simply grainy black-and-white picture while we all sat open-mouthed for the take off. Everyone was excited. I asked an old friend to collaborate my memories of these times and events. Her conclusion was different than what I had expected or considered:  \nI cared. I can’t speak for the rest of the kids. Obviously, the school cared. But thinking about it now, I am amazed that the school would have shown this stuff live. We were relatively young, and anything could have happened. People could have blown up on the launch pad, upon liftoff, upon reentry, as they did later on. And surely the school wouldn’t have wanted a school full of kids crying and traumatized. This was long before the era of school shootings.  \nThrough my high school years, the space launches and landings had become commonplace and I do not recall anyone watching on television or simply talking about them. Had America changed? Or was it just me?  \nFrom that early exhilarating feeling about the initial space explorations, I remember nothing else about any space advance or adventure until I lived in a dormitory during my first year in college. It appeared that everyone else was interested and their enthusiasm sparked mine, once again. There was tobe a major crewed mission the next month, February 1967. However, in a test session in January, 1967, there was an accident onboard killing all three men: Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. We needed to know what had happened.  \nThere was a large shared entertainment room for television watching. Of course, no one had any personal electronic devices at that time and I don’t remember anyone having a television in her own room, maybe just a small radio. That evening, people walked in and out, maybe 20 or so maximum at any one time. We all struggled with the sorrow of their deaths. Then the conversation turned to the relevant questions: What were we doing up there? Was the risk of human life worth the value of exploration? Had this accident been human error? What would the Russians think of our failure?  \nThere was raging debate over the cost of the space program, regarding allocation of resources. Would this money have been better spent for education orthe military? Or even if we wanted the militarization of our space exploration. The question we did not think to ask a","cbCaidvSzPN4Fp4l","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidvSzPN4Fp4l","pdf",65456,"English","# The Cow Jumped over the Moon\n## Childhood broadcasts and Cold War fear\n## The 1967 onboard accident and campus debate\n## Costs, risk, and the technology revolution\n## Apollo 11 landing and family memory","[{\"question\":\"Why does the author begin with the nursery rhyme about reaching the moon?\",\"answer\":\"The nursery rhyme symbolizes the absurdity of the moon being reachable. The author then contrasts that idea with her lifetime when space became a real, pursued goal.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the space program affect the author as a child?\",\"answer\":\"During the early 1960s, the space program mixed awe with competitive urgency, and her school showed televised launches. 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