OH+Reflection

Oral History Reflection

**Interview subject** - Marry Damron (my grandmother)
 * Topic ** - The Space Program

After doing research about the United State's space program in the 1960's I learned much more than I had known previously. But the information I learned form my grandma was something I doubt I could find on most online sources, or even most books for that matter. It helps a lot more when you have somebody that you know personally who experienced the event, and it teaches you a lot more than any textbook can. It helps to have insight from a person who was there, you understand perspectives on different issues in greater detail.

The space program truly was "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". We were exploring somewhere that had never been explored before, it was a new frontier just as the West had been. It was incredible that we were able to go from getting a satellite the size of a basketball into orbit to getting a man to walk on the moon in just ten years. For the population of the 60's it truly must have been like living in a science fiction story, things were getting done that where known as impossible just two years prior, its incredible. I can only imagine the excitement people had turning on the T.V. and watching somebody lay foot on the moon for the first time. From what I have learned so far it seems like there was little to know opposition to the program, everybody was on board and eager to make new discoveries.