I asked these questions to try and get at the larger societal memory about the moon landing rather than just personal memory. Today society seems to remember the moon landing as part of the context of the Cold War and power politics. My dad's perception of it is divorced from this larger context. I found it interesting that the public lost interest after the landing happened once.  My dad mentioned that it was still seen in art and culture but less so as a political moment. This could suggest that the moon landing was seen as important but was so because of how individuals remembered it rather than because of how it was part of a larger political context. How does history change as we look back on events within their larger contexts? Do we then lose what events meant to individual people at the time?