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The peak of Apollo appreciation for me, right up there with seeing the launch of Apollo 15 when I was age 15, was twenty years ago at the Kennedy Space Center, on July 16, 1999, when I had the privilege of attending the Apollo 30th anniversary press conference with Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and Walt Cunningham. I shot nearly a whole roll of film during the event, and my question to Armstrong was whether he had plans to publish a biography, to which he smiled and replied, "Not at this time" (but he finally did, six years later...titled "First Man"). Standing next to me in the bleachers that day was Andy Chaikin, whose book Man on the Moon was made into the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon," and just a few feet away was Miles O'Brien, CNN's space correspondent at the time. CNN was airing the press conference live, but then it and all other news of the anniversary was preempted by the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., in a plane crash that same day.
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Taken on 16 July 1999, 00:00
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