The other thing that is coming to mind, and watching the old videos on YouTube, is the full understanding of everything that was going on, the stages of the Apollo rocket, the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the fact that only the top bit left the moon and left the landing stage behind, the maouvres that had to be done when in orbit to get the Lunar Module in position, and then finally the tiny capsule that returned to earth...
...all of this explained in painstaking detail on the BBC by James Burke and Patrick Moore who followed the Apollo missions live each evening and brought Science Fact (not Fiction) to us 1960s Space Kids - one of the earlier Apollo missions (8?) was the first manned rocket to orbit the moon and there was a genuine suspense as they went out of radio contact whilst "behind" the moon, all covered live on TV, like others its quite annoying when those who weren't even born suggest that none of this happened, we were there, we saw it live on TV, several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes
