On this day, July 20 1969. The Eagle landed on the Moon.

[1srelluc]

I was 15 at the time and a bunch of my friends were staying over to watch it....Fantastic times.

 

[gtopa1]

I was at school in Grade six and watched it with the whole school in the hall on a Black+White TV (one TV for the whole school). It was magic. It was very quiet except for the TV and we heard Armstrong loud and clear.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

I was at school in Grade six and watched it with the whole school in the hall on a Black+White TV (one TV for the whole school). It was magic. It was very quiet except for the TV and we heard Armstrong loud and clear.

Greg

This song was the start of the Space Race for me. 1962 was when I first realised that we were going into space; '63 with JFK and I realised we were going to the moon.



AWESOME in the real sense of the word.

Greg

 

[sparky]

It was an event that brought all of humanity together ~S~

 

[rightwinger]

Only 4 of the 12 men who walked on the moon are still with us.

Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11 is still alive

 

[1srelluc]

It was an event that brought all of humanity together ~S~

Well, almost:

 

[sparky]

I didn't know IM2 sang??? ~S~

 

[mudwhistle]

I was at school in Grade six and watched it with the whole school in the hall on a Black+White TV (one TV for the whole school). It was magic. It was very quiet except for the TV and we heard Armstrong loud and clear.

Greg

I remember it happened on the weekend.
What kind of school did you go to?

 

[rightwinger]

I remember it happened on the weekend.
What kind of school did you go to?

Not only on the weekend but in the summer

They landed at around four in the afternoon and the walk was around 10 PM

 

[Oddball]

I was 15 at the time and a bunch of my friends were staying over to watch it....Fantastic times.

Listen to this several times a year....Have also reviewed these PDI-to-touchdown from every mission numerous times.

Was glued to the teevee but only listening as the "simulations" of the day were terrible...Just laid back listening to the tension on both ends...Remember the countdown and didn't know back then that they were mere seconds from aborting the landing.

 

[Winston]

Not only on the weekend but in the summer

They landed at around four in the afternoon and the walk was around 10 PM

Yes, it was a Sunday. I had just turned seven the day before. I had a birthday party, only one of my childhood.

Every generation has seminal moments. For most of us, the late boomers, it was the lunar landing. For the early boomers it was the Kennedy assassination. Before that, Pearl Harbor. Then there was the four day bank holiday in 1933. It had a huge impact.

 

[rightwinger]

I always thought Buzz Aldrin would have been better as the first man on the moon.

No question Neil Armstrong was a very skilled Astronaut, but being the first in mankind is quite a responsibility.
After they returned from the moon, Armstrong became reclusive, rarely giving interviews and those he gave were very brief.

Buzz Aldrin has been front and center for over 50 years. Giving interviews, meeting the public, being the face of NASA.
When a lunar landing denier started shouting at him, Aldrin punched the guy in the face.

Aldrin should have been first.

 

[rightwinger]

Yes, it was a Sunday. I had just turned seven the day before. I had a birthday party, only one of my childhood.

Every generation has seminal moments. For most of us, the late boomers, it was the lunar landing. For the early boomers it was the Kennedy assassination. Before that, Pearl Harbor. Then there was the four day bank holiday in 1933. It had a huge impact.

The “events” in my lifetime

JFK Assassination
Moon Landing
Challenger Explosion
9-11

 

[Chuz Life]

One of those, I remember exactly where I was, but was really too young to fully appreciate it. Years later, I visited Kennedy Space center and saw the actual control room and other pieces. Good times.

 

[postman]

I remember it happened on the weekend.
What kind of school did you go to?

He's from down under

In Australia, the school year for primary and secondary schools typically runs from late January or early February to mid-December.

 

[postman]

Yes, it was a Sunday. I had just turned seven the day before. I had a birthday party, only one of my childhood.

Every generation has seminal moments. For most of us, the late boomers, it was the lunar landing. For the early boomers it was the Kennedy assassination. Before that, Pearl Harbor. Then there was the four day bank holiday in 1933. It had a huge impact.

Why only remember the bad news. What about momentous occasions like V-J day.

 

[mudwhistle]

He's from down under

In Australia, the school year for primary and secondary schools typically runs from late January or early February to mid-December.

That's because their Summer is our Winter.

 

[mudwhistle]

Why only remember the bad news. What about momentous occasions like V-J day.

That was before my time.

 

[odanny]

Exactly 25 years earlier, an unsuccessful coup tried to end the life of Hitler. Staffenberg would be shot where he is pictured here.

Stauffenberg, on left, in the Bendlerblock

Bendlerblock today.

 

[konradv]

In the days before cable I watched it through heavy “snow” out in the boonies.