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Moon Landing - Where were you?
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arthwollipot
Limerick Purist Pronouns: He/Him
Get off my lawn!Wow, you people are like, old and stuff.
alfaniner
Penultimate Amazing
What a present - Apollo 11 on my 11th birthday. I watched most of it but remember going to bed before it was done due to a headache from too much ice cream and cake.
It's nice of NASA to throw me a big party every 10 years or so!
It's nice of NASA to throw me a big party every 10 years or so!
shadron
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Ummmmm, the landing was on July 20, 1969, which was a Sunday, at 5:17PM EDT (8:18PM in the UK). Perhaps the TV was on on Monday, but there was nothing going on until the ascent stage was fired at
Oops: ascent was at 12:54PM EDT on the 21st (5:54PM UK). They crawled out of the lander at 10:56PM EDT (2:56AM UK on the 21st).
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SezMe
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Sitting in a crappy bar, watching on their little TV.
I remember the moon's surface passing underneath and wondering how much fuel they had. Heart in my throat. IIRC (dubious) they did run pretty low on fuel. I wonder how close they came to having to abort.
shadron
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If I remember rightly, about 30 seconds. (according to wiki, 25 seconds).
esquel
Collector of Meteorites
Under my parents' coffee table in the living room, watching the broadcast. I was 6 at the time... and they let me stay up to watch it.
godofpie
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We were camping at or near Antioch College in Ohio. I was 5. It's funny how well I remember it. We were camping in our pop up camper and my parents had brought along the 13 inch black and white TV. There was a covered building on the grounds and my dad plugged the TV in at one end of the building and told all the other campers that he had a TV set up and was going to be watching the moon landing. I didn't actually watch the landing. I was just outside the building playing with the other kids. There must have been 100 or more people crammed in the building. It was SRO. I remember it so well because my dad yelled at me and the other kids to be quiet so that the adults could hear the TV.
SpitfireIX
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Watching it with my parents and possibly my younger brothers, but unfortunately I don't remember it
. I was four years old. I recall watching TV programs about equipment that would be used, and some mission activities (especially the Lunar Rover, so these might well have been after the first landing), but I don't recall watching any live broadcasts. The first actual missions of which I can remember any details are the SkylabWP missions.SpitfireIX
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Tables have turned, since Americans seem to be in awe of all things Australian, such as Elle McPhereson, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman ...
Wowbagger
The Infinitely Prolonged
I was on the moon, watching them from within my invisibility cloak.
Travis
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Well, we had an exchange student from Finland, in high school, who was completely unaware of the Apollo missions. She was honestly taken aback when the subject came up once in the art class I had with her. She was wicked beautiful though.
Also, the first hoax believer I ever met was a Canadian, also in high school, who's main argument was, "Americans are stupid, therefore they couldn't have gone." He wasn't too popular in our school for obvious reasons.
I guess I just extrapolated that the rest of the world either didn't care, didn't believe it or had just never heard of it. That's what I get for extraneous extrapolating.
Undesired Walrus
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Then she was a blithering idiot.
Thick as two short planks though.
Seriously Travis, you're an intelligent guy, why would you think that?
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Rolfe
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A natural blonde? Even Finland is big enough to have its share of complete morons.
And Canada is even bigger. You seem to have been a bit unlucky in your encounters with damn furriners though!
There was like nothing else on TV all week. (OK, can't swear to that as I was gatecrashing other people's houses to watch it, but I did a lot if gatecrashing.) I remember the evening of the actual landing, and our entire family went into our landlady's flat to watch on her TV. Before the landing there was nothing but moon programmes on. I remember one that went over a load of old myths about the moon, which they said were about to be exploded, jokes about whether the astronauts would touch down on green cheese and stuff like that.
Then the actual landing happened, but I was furious they weren't going to be doing the moonwalk until the middle of the night, our time. This was the real thing, as far as I was concerned - actually getting out of the car and going for a walk. Which is why I presented myself on my cousin's doorstep at about 7 am to see it as soon as possible.
And nobody cared what nationality the people were who had made the trip. (Possibly because it was the Americans, and they were letting us all participate - if it had been the Russians, we'd maybe not have been quite so happy about it.) Armstrong and the rest were representatives of homo sapiens that week.
It was awesome.
Rolfe.
Blue Bubble
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Oh for goodness sake ... I was 16 at the time ... she was 14 ... I had plenty of other things on my mind ... 
14 at the time in Oz.
Memories are such an imperfect thing, but I think I heard the actual landing live on radio in the early hours of July 21 (oz time), about 5.00am +/- a bit. I know I had been listening earlier to the radio broadcast, but did I drift off at the exact moment or not I couldn't say for certain now, but I do recall my father yelling down the hall that they had landed.
Of the first steps I have no doubt - my high school was about 100 yards from home and while my classmates piled into the library to watch a good mate and I ran back to my place and watched it there with my parents.
Ok, I was a science geek/nerd /whatever at the time, but to this day the sheer wonder and emotion of that event has not had its peer.
Memories are such an imperfect thing, but I think I heard the actual landing live on radio in the early hours of July 21 (oz time), about 5.00am +/- a bit. I know I had been listening earlier to the radio broadcast, but did I drift off at the exact moment or not I couldn't say for certain now, but I do recall my father yelling down the hall that they had landed.
Of the first steps I have no doubt - my high school was about 100 yards from home and while my classmates piled into the library to watch a good mate and I ran back to my place and watched it there with my parents.
Ok, I was a science geek/nerd /whatever at the time, but to this day the sheer wonder and emotion of that event has not had its peer.
Skeptical Greg
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Marine Base, 29 Palms California ..
Watched it on the TV in the NCO club ...
Watched it on the TV in the NCO club ...
