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I'm about your age and, yeah ... at this remove I'd use the word majestic, how the huge Saturn V stack would slowly start climbing and accelerating.

Compared to later programs, there's also a "wow" in that NASA was "going to put some men on the moon", vs. the "space truck" paradigm of the Shuttle and other launches which at best send probes to far off planets and such. A different scale in every way.