Re: What REALLY got me started in amateur astronomy...

From: moT (Mot_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 05:06:12 GMT

"francis marion" <francis_marion@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:dtejd.54981$HA.23722@attbi_s01...
> One cold night in October of 1957, my dad woke me up to go out and look at
> Sputnik!!
>
> I was 6 years old and my mom thought we were both
> nuts.............................
>
> The rest, as you said, is history.
>
> Francis Marion
>

I beat ya, I was 3 when daddy pointed up and I saw that dot moving across
the sky.
Anyone who was anyone was doing the same thing. It was plastered all over
the press
and media.