You had a black-and-white television?!
This comic strip sums up the generation gaps between Apollo
days and now:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=3808
Of course it isn't always age that is an excuse: Ten years ago
I taught an adult ed basic astronomy course where I discovered
that not one of the adults in the class knew who was the first
man to walk on the Moon. One person hesitantly said John Glenn,
but otherwise I got blank stares.