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Posted on 07/20/2017 7:15:24 PM PDT by Ray76
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA
I never imagined it was a short lived episode in world history, never to be repeated for decades to come. How far we've fallen as a country in this respect.
It's almost as if we've gone backward in many ways. We achieved amazing things in the late 60's and early 70's that have never been repeated since. Kind of like the pyramids or something...
An eight year old, watching it in B&W on a HUGE 26” COLOUR TV in a suburb of d’Ottawa, Canada. Remember it well!
Yes. But I believe it will happen again. We may live to see the Chinese do it. There may yet be a surprise in store for us with a landing on Mars.
Attribute it to counter-culture/drugs/SJW studies, etc.
I was watching it on an old B&W TV in the boys dorm of a Summer retreat.
The Rec Room was full so I guess just about everyone watched it.
Hard to believe.
I remember watching that on TV.
I was going to beg my parents to let me stay up that late and watch it but I didn’t have to.
They INSISTED we stay up and watch it.
I remember sitting with my family in front of the TV, and watching this - the kind of memory that never leaves you.
My brother had tried to tell our Grandmother (who was born in 1890) that someday we would walk on the Moon. She didn’t believe him, and he had his reward for prescience on this day - but I don’t think Granny ever really understood it...
I still remember standing around with a gang of boys in 1952. We lived in Panama City and my oldest Brother knew everything. He was 10.
One of the guys asked if we would ever land on the moon. Joe thought about it for a while and finally said “no”. That did it. I knew we would never make it. Joe knew everything.
They INSISTED we stay up and watch it.
I was only eight for the first landing, pretty unaware of world events, and had an early bedtime routine. I distinctly remember being told to "wake up" (not asleep anyway) and come out to the living room and watch it. The first landing was an extremely memorable childhood memory.
Panama City? Were you at the air force base?
Exactly right. The argument was why go and spend all this money with all the problems we have here on earth. There was a counter culture poster with a photo on one of the astronauts on the moon with a big SO WHAT headline above it. That was the attitude of the left. Since it also made the Russians losers in the moon race it was also denigrated.
Watched it on a B&W TV with a couple of leads from the speaker to a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Dad was miffed that I’d taken the back off HIS TV to get at the speaker.
I think my sister still has that reel.
We lived in Drummond Park. After about a year we moved to Cedar Grove.
Daddy worked at Tyndall. Every now and then he would take me to work with him. I could sit there and watch the planes take off etc.
Remember the national excitement for the first couple of space shuttle flights? They quickly became “routine”.
Moon over Chu Lai. Pretty cool.
My dad woke me up late to watch this. I thought we were on our way. The following forty-eight years have been a huge technological letdown.
at Edson Range...
Drill Instructor kicks us out of the rack to the grinder at zero dark thirty to wave to the Astronauts who were on the moon.
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