Like so many others who had access to television that day 50 years ago – July 20, 1969 – Bob Brackenbury can remember following the Apollo 11 moon landing. "I was just tickled with the whole thing," Brackenbury, 91, said. "I stayed up watching the whole thing. I remember we watched a lot of it beforehand, the takeoff." By that time, Brackenbury and his family had resettled to his native Independence. A few years earlier, though, Brackenbury had been in the Los Angeles area, working as a graphic designer with Rocketdyne, the rocket engine operations division of North American Aviation, which contracted with NASA...
