re: ...1976
I succeeded my first year of law at the university....It was a very hot summer all over Europe (like now )....And just before our national day, I was looking at the news presented by Luc Beyer de Rijke and there it was, the very first sharp Mars picture:
Later in september I travelled to the US, saw my relatives and with some of them, visited the NASM.
At the time, there were no more Moon flights, not yet shuttle flights, no internet nor cell phones nor even video recorders. We just got our first colout TV a year before.