The NBC cameras trained upon a blond nurse in hippie sunglasses asking him in all earnestness “when you’re going to take the first woman to the moon.” Armstrong answered with leering innuendo. Bob chimed in with a joke about diet-conscious ladies: “I’m sure they’ll all go when they find they can go up there and be weightless.” Meanwhile, the camera found a banner out in the crowd: a peace symbol and the circle-and-cross emblem of women’s liberation.
