Not yet a gleam in my daddy’s eye.
I was at our summer home in Bay Beach, Ontario Can. ( Lake Erie), watching with my family,except my older brother who was serving on swift boats in Nam, I was 9 years old at the time.
I was at a place called Hill 55, about 20 clicks southwest of Danang.
I was 18...at home..recall my step Dad worked on some part of the lunar rover equipment for Boeing...but it was supposed to be a big secret
Qui Nhon, Viet Nam
NYPD
We all stopped for about 20 minutes to watch.
I was 9-years-old, soon to be 10, and going into the fifth-grade. I was attending a Honts family reunion in Milboro, Virginia.
As I recall, the adults were teasing us kids that if we looked really close at the moon we would be able to see the U.S. flag!! Somebody had a pair of binoculars that we took turns trying to find that flag. They kept us busy, huh?
A few days before the landing, dad snuck off to Sears and charged a big color t.v. especially for the event. Mom was furious because they really couldn’t afford it. We were all glued to the new set, but years later I realized there really wasn’t much “color” to see...lol. Mom and dad divorced later that year...sigh. I was 14 that summer.
On Long Island, in the Hamptons. I saw the landing in a bar.
I was eight years old, sitting in my parents then watching Armstrong land on the moon. With us was my father‘s father, who had been born before the Wright brothers invented aircraft. I can only imagine what must have been going through his mind at the great technological leaps during his lifetime as he saw Armstrong walk on the moon.
I was twelve years old, growing up in suburban St. Louis. My father worked for McDonnell Aircraft, so I was brought up with an interest in aviation. Some of my earliest memories are of watching Mercury launches. On this date in 1969, I was watching TV coverage and building a model of the Saturn V.
Los Angeles AFB. Space Division. Unmanned recon program. One month after AF Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL was cancelled. With MOL I had met past and future astronauts, I made sure my family, kids 4 and 7 watched with me.
Los Angeles AFB. Space Division. Unmanned recon program. One month after AF Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL was cancelled. With MOL I had met past and future astronauts, I made sure my family, kids 4 and 7 watched with me.
We lived in Sebastopol, CA. I was 8 years old. I watched the landing and moon walk on a black and white TV in the living room. My memory has filled in the missing color.
3 months out of the Service and watching it with my future wife.
Bristol, NH. Watching on an ancient (even then) B&W TV. I was starting down 5-years of age and my dad had been killed in Vietnam 14 months earlier.
Six weeks out of high school. Must have been cool having a dad who was a rocket man, of sorts. At least being near a missile wing.
I was a wide eyed 12 year old sitting glued to my TV in Carteret, NJ
At home with 5 young kids.