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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!
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.
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.
Moon over Chu Lai. Pretty cool.
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.
I bought the Brian Floca children’s book “Moonshot” (great book btw; very dramatic, just like the real thing) for my custodial 7-yo grand daughter. As she was reading it to me, she noticed me tearing up at the “Eagle has landed” part. She stopped reading, asked me what was wrong, and I explained that the world was watching with intense anticipation, and it was a rare moment that the entire world could celebrate.
Then, at the “one small step” passage, I totally lost it. I hope I was able to convey the gravity of the moment.
Thanks for posting this. I was kind of surprised that there was not more mention of this today. Sad.
Don’t remember the date the landing was originally planned for, except that my loud-mouthed uncle bragged t was scheduled to land on his birthday. It happened on my 14th birthday instead.
Remember it well. It was just about a month before my Bar Mitzvah. We gathered around the TV and watched it in living black & white :)
It was an interesting time. A day or so after the moon landing my dear old Dad predicted the Mets would win the pennant.
For a brief time, America was all on the same team.
It would never happen now. Trump could find a cure for cancer and the Democrats and news media would find nothing but negatives about it.
” With a Little Help From My friends” I stayed up for 72 hours to see Armstrong come down the ladder and step on the moon.
This was a great moment in U.S. history. What a great accomplishment this was- considering the political and cultural conflicts - along with the technical challenges and limitations.
I am still in awe of what was done in our space program. These were brave and ingenious men and women.
The engineers, administrators, visionaries, and astronauts were focused on the single goal that JFK made just a little over 8 years earlier.
One person in particular who comes to my mind re. Apollo 11 is Michael Collins, the Command Module pilot. I wonder about HIS thoughts while he orbited the moon alone.