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This year marks the 40th anniversaries of the Apollo 10 (up close look at the moon) and Apollo 11 (1st lunar landing) space missions, and over the weekend the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa hosted a mini-reunion of those who were involved in Apollo 10, including astronauts Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan. Also participating was my uncle, Wes Chesser, who was a recovery swimmer on the splashdown team for both missions, and helped pull the astronauts to safety.
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Quin| 2.4.09 @ 2:13PM
Paul, it is SO great that your uncle was a Frogman! I thought the Frogmen were the coolest thing in the world. I was only five years old when Apollo 11 splashed down, but the way I understood it, only the Frogmen were good enough swimmers to be allowed into the "deep end" of the ocean! I briefly wanted to be a Frogman when I grew up.
I also remember the Snoopy aspect of all of it quite well. I watched Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon while clutching a foot-high Snoopy-in-a-space-suit-and-space-helmet toy. Ahh, those were the days....
Alan Brooks| 2.4.09 @ 5:14PM
Apollo 8 was the best. round the moon.