
Generation Apollo, Part 2: Men on the moon, their children back on Earth
CNN
Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell and more: their names fill the pages of history books. But rarely has the story been told by those who grew up in it. This is part 2 of the history of the space race as seen by 11 children of those brave, pioneering Apollo astronauts and NASA flight directors.
The telling has mostly come from the astronauts themselves, or members of Mission Control, 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.
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