Posted on 07/20/2014 12:45:26 PM PDT by shove_it
The year was 1969. The turbulent time in America saw troops fighting in Vietnam, and a nation dealing with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, killed in 1963, and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both murdered in 1968.
Then came that one small step.
Forty-five years ago today, 500 million people around the world witnessed American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins as they embarked on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and six hours later Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon's surface, delivering those iconic words: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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well i always remember my mum (God rest her soul), telling me to watch it on a B&W Pye TV with her and my dad. She said i would always remember it...
i didnt understand it until she took me outside and pointed at the moon and said they are up there....
I didn’t arrive down here in the Melbourne area until 1979 and was not employed in the space program directly but Mrs. shove_it and I enjoyed a few Friday evenings at the Mouse Trap for dinner and drinks in the early 1980s. We did not go to the Pillow Talk Lounge though. It must have really been wild in the early days in Cocoa Beach on Friday nights.
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