Usually we discuss history in terms of earth shaking impacts on nations, industries and militaries. Similarly, space history is usually discussed in terms of huge government programs, the Cold War and the Moon Race, big rocket hardware development projects, and so forth. However, we should not forget the tremendous effect space history had on the lives of individuals, even those not directly involved in the space programs.

Contact Light - a personal retrospective of Project Apollo
Kipp Teague's page describes both the history of the Apollo program and how it affected his life as a kid in the late 60's and early 70's. He shows lots of photos of spacecraft and launches but also of memoribilia of the time such as magazine covers and model rocket kits.

Companion site Apollo Archive holds an enormous set of resources - images, video & audio clips, etc - on the Apollo project.

EyeWitness to Space History
Justin Milliun publishes here is account space history events such as Skylab 3 launch. He invites others to add their sites.

• Space Cadet - Mark Wade at Astronautix looks back at growing up in the Space Age - Aug.12.02 - He especially notes the influence of fhe space movies and TV of the 1950's and 1960's.
• AMCGLTD: NASA_Follies Archives
• Flight... FDO!! - Flight Dynamics Officer - Roger Balettie

Thomas Lindblad's Rockets from Kronogård
Thomas Lindblad, a physics professor at the Royal Insitute of Technology in Stockholm, worked as a teenager on the first rocket launches from Sweden (along with Sven Grahn mentioned below). He provides lots of photos from the early 1960s of Nike rockets, payloads and launches.

Sven Grahn's Space Place
Sven Grahn, a top manager at the Swedish Space Corporation, became involved in space exploration as a teenager and was involved in the first rocket launches from Sweden (see Th. Lindblad above). He was especially interested in following the Soviet program and managed to pickup radio signals from many of their spacecraft.

Hear his Sounds from Space with audio clips from various spacecraft. More radio and tracking info are provide on his Radio Notes and Tracking Notes pages.

• Space History Notes
• Oberth, von Braun, Corona and me
  Memories of the XI International Astronautical Congress in Stockholm, 15-20 August 1960
• The day I saw Yuri Gagarin and my camera jammed
  Sven Grahn
  
• The first rockets launched into space from Sweden
  Sven Grahn, Sollentuna, Sweden
• Tracking Apollo 17 from Florida

Vanguard Kids-- (found some 50's kids too)

• A Vacuum-Scarred Space Veteran Reflects On The 1950s
  
• Solar Guard - Space Academy
  

Apollo Kids

• Wes Clark, At the Final Frontier in a Cardboard Box
  
  
• Nancy Kercheval book, "Space: A Memoir" (Amazon)
  Rockets shadow childhood: One-time resident reconstructs race to moon
  By Billy Cox - Florida Today - Dec. 16, 1997: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Long removed from her "Wonder Years" home on the Space Coast, novelist Jesse Lee Kercheval was shaped by an Apollo-era experience in ways that didn't clarify themselves until adulthood."
  
  
  
• Scott Cook's Heroes
  
  
• Win a Gemini Capsule
  
  
• The Children of Apollo & Visions for the Future
  by Eric Strobel, Rosslyn - Oct 9, 2001
  
  
• First Moon Landing Marked an Entire Generation
  by Matt Wallace
  
  
• The Day I Got Interested in Space, Dec 15, 1965
  
  
• Mercury Capsule Simulator Science Fair Project, Ken Richardson
  
  
• Win A Gemini! - by Scott P. Cook