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Apollo 11: Six Hundred Million People. One Channel. One Moment
Apollo 11 1969 throwback lands on the week Artemis 2 launched and the comparison is impossible to resist. An estimated 600 million people crowded around televisions on one channel at one moment to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon for the first time. Michael Collins circled above. Richard Nixon was president. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister of Canada.
What does it cost to understand how different the world was? The average Canadian house was $15,000. Gas was 35 cents a gallon. Weekly groceries ran about $20. Today the house is $670,000, gas is a dollar, and…
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