Generation Apollo: Coming of age inside America s space race By: CNN
By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN (CNN)
They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr. Their stories of NASA s Apollo program in the 1960s and 70s are the stuff of legend and lore.
The telling has mostly come from the astronauts themselves, or members of Mission Control, and occasionally from the astronauts spouses.
But there was another group who had a front-row seat to history. This is the story of Apollo from some of its most wide-eyed observers: the children of those brave Americans who first went into space and those who helped get them there.
Generation Apollo, Part 2: Men on the moon, their children back on Earth
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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died at age 90
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