No. Apollo 17 was the last flight on a Saturn V. Apollo-Soyuz, in July 1975 on a Saturn 1B, was the last NASA manned spaceflight before the first space shuttle flight, in April 1981. There were also three manned flights to Skylab in between those.

Not when they had to take them down anyways for roof repairs anyways.

I thought I could edit my previous comment after I found this article, but it seems I could only post another one.

Unless they had to remove them to repair/replace the roof anyways. I know of several houses where this happened and they didn't put the solar panels back up when the re-roofing was finished.

GPS satellites aren't low, they're roughly 20,000 km above ground. Too faint to see, AFAIK.

True, but they're usually too faint to see without techniques similar to astronomical photography. Sometimes they can be seen with binoculars when sunlight reflects from solar panels or other surfaces just right. (a "flare")

Something that big and close, on the other hand is very easy to see. I even once saw the shuttle through a (thin) overcast of clouds, it was so bright. The space station is even bigger and brighter.

Funny you mention newspapers. The primary Y2K bug I saw was all the web pages which on new years day said "January 1, 19100." Somewhere I still have a screenshot of the New York Times' web page like that.

I think I heard of one embedded system that broke due to Y2K, but I've seen many more over the years that got confused over leap years. The year 2000 was especially good for that because that wasn't a leap year even though the common, oversimplified, every-4-year rule says it should have been.

s/ICBM/cruise missile/

I've seen the same thing as you, on (Cox) basic cable. They're heavily pushing their digital cable service. I had it briefly, and with their box I had a great many additional channels which my new TV doesn't find with its own tuner / decoder.

I've also heard that a new TV can pick up all of digital cable, except for goodies like online TV guide, convenient pay-per-view, and other interactive features. I don't believe it - some other trickery is going on.

(I went back to basic cable, because after their promotion for digital cable ran out, it was very expensive.)

It's not that easy. TV stations in the VHF-High band (channels 7-13) are currently transmitting the digital version of themselves in the higher UHF channels. After they stop their analog transmissions, they'll move their digital transmissions to their VHF-High channels.

Thus many major stations (4 out of the 7 big VHF stations here) will move around after the transition. Now that transition will be gradual and not so predictable. Stations will be moving around, and we'll have to keep rescanning or otherwise updating our tuners, either in converter boxes or new TVs.