I had this game as a kid, but never found anyone to play it with.

Years later, I was part of a gaming group that met once or twice a month to play (mostly Magic Realm). We had a meeting shortly after the Challenger shuttle disaster... and we just sat around... we were all depressed and no one was in the mood to play anything at all.

Then I remembered Countdown, and mentioned that I had this old kid's game about the space program! Everyone thought that would be perfect, so we played the game as our tribute to the fallen astronauts, and enjoyed it immensely.

But we never played it again after that.