I was 16 and remember how anxious I was when the astronauts were due to lift off from the surface of the moon, as if it hadn't worked they would have been stranded there and their oxygen would have run out.
After the take off we had the anxiety of the astronauts re-entry into the earth's atmosphere and the possibility of them burning up if the heat shields didn't work.
Then when the astronauts landed they had to go into quarantine in case they brought back micro-organisms that could wipe out mankind.
Apart from that, it was a very jolly few days.