Video of first Apollo launch, 1967, Walter Cronkite gets excited

Got these videos indirectly from Instapundit, which had a post about a carnival of space, and a blog called robot guy.

I remember these. You could sense the power of the thing even if you weren't there.



The Shuttle Columbia, the first flight of a shuttle. I remember this.



And the landing:



Update:

And don't forget, the first American in space, Alan Shepard.