Watching the moon walk.
My parents demanded we stay up and watch it. They said it was history in the making and they wanted us to see it.
Thing is, I would have begged to stay up and probably done so even if they said no, so I needed no convincing.
Dong Tam, Vietnam
I was the ticket taker at the Star Lite Drive-In Theater in Fargo N.D. The manager of the theater (and the Moon Lite in Moorhead, MN) came to the ticket booth and said “We are on the moon.” Mr. Lester Lucas was my first boss and one of the very best I have had.,
I was in the Central Highlands of Vietnam trying to stay alive while some guy was walking on the Moon. Quite a contrast, wouldn’t you say?
I was 12. Our family was vacationing on Cape Cod with my dad’s brother and his family. All 15 of us were huddled to watch around a small TV with aluminum foil on the rabbit ears to try to improve the reception.
Assorted molecules and atoms that were widely scattered.
I was almost 3. I recall seeing it, but I don’t know if it was live, or a replay later.
Sitting in the back seat of Dads 1961 Chrysler Windsor somewhere between Desert Center and Indio on our way home from a ski weekend at Lake Havasu
I was an oil company kid in Tripoli, Libya watching on the only TV channel we had, broadcast from Wheelus AFB, just outside Tripoli.
Getting ready to enter the Marine Corps. Remember it well.
After church that Sunday, I spent hours in my Oldsmobile “88 Holiday Coupe” listening to the radio, to what was happening on the Moon, in preparation to Armstrong’s moonwalk that night.....which I viewed on TV.
That's the LM on the left and either Buzz or Neal on the right. Poloroid = 1960s VCR.
I was 7 months old. May parents tell me I was watching the moon landing on TV. I can’t remember.
Goose AFB Labrador. No live coverage at that time.
Vacationing in DC, watching it with my two friends in the motel room.
I was feeling guilty about the lack of diversity at NASA
Sitting in the basement with my family watching it on Black and White TV. I was 10 at the time.
I was a pre teens. Probably saw it but don’t remember which apollo moon landing I saw. It was on all THREE channels so we had to watch it.
I was at home with my family, back when all of us were still living. We watched the landing together, and were ecstatic.