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Moon Landing - Where were you?

Being all of 10 days old at the time, I do not recall first hand, I am told I was propped up so I could see the TV and watched intently.
 
I was 10 at the time and distinctly remember watching the landing from a log cabin in Northern Ontario. The condition of the cabin was matched by the equally ancient black and white TV. My entire family was present, including my grandmother who continually asked,
“how do they know what could happen when he steps on the moon, it could be made of cheese?” It must have connected somehow because I pursued a career in geology.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Seriously Travis, you're an intelligent guy, why would you think that?
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Well, think of it this way. The rest of the world is really into that game we call "Soccer" while here in America all we can do is look on and wonder what everybody else finds interesting in it. Conversely we are into gridiron football, be it in college or the NFL, while the rest of the world looks at us and wonders what we find interesting about it.

My point being that it is possible for one nations people to be obsessed with something the rest of the world couldn't even care about. Add in the way the rest of the world hates everything about America and it becomes seemingly reasonable to think they wouldn't care about Apollo. Just some stunt being pulled by the "uncultured buffoons" you know.
 
I find it a bit of a relief that not everybody who has posted, and who was of greater than small-child age at the time of the ’69 moon landing, tells of being intensely enthralled by it. I was 20 at the time. Had then, and always have had, zero interest in “space” stuff happening in real life; and was at that time finding life difficult in various ways.

Here in the UK, it was the middle of the night when the big event happened; I announced my intention of going to bed, normal time, and my lack of interest in any lunar capers during the night. Was annoyed when the relatives who were “in loco parentis” to me, insisted on waking me up from a nice (non-X-rated) dream and dragging me into the living room to watch the televised doings of these twerps stumping around on the moon and uttering platitudes. And, have never at any time since, felt any second-thoughts-type gratitude toward said relatives, for their kindly-meant act.
 
lionking said:
Please do.
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Unfortunately, I survived the years in much better condition than this newspaper.

I did a composite scan (sloppily put together) of the entire front page. (Lots of damage especially on Michael Collins.) I scanned a couple other tidbits, and just took a photo of a full-page ad.

This issue had lots more articles on the subject, including a complete transcript of conversation during the EVA and another article with a complete transcript of the conversation right after landing. Also a small article about the astronauts' peak heart rates, and plenty more.

The scanned images are all PNG files and the photo is a JPEG.

http://joethejuggler.com/MoonPost/

(This is just a little index page with thumbnails that link to the bigger images. The big Front Page image is almost 18 mb; the rest are substantially smaller.)
 
Travis said:
Add in the way the rest of the world hates everything about America and it becomes seemingly reasonable to think they wouldn't care about Apollo. Just some stunt being pulled by the "uncultured buffoons" you know.
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Chip on shoulder, much? :oldroll:

Rolfe.
 
I was 16 years old and watching on the TV in a young lady's bedroom. I really wan't paying the landing that much attention.

I should just stop there, but, in the interest of honesty, I have to disclose that there were two other couples with us and I was three years away from my own first "landing".
 
I was too little to understand, so I kept pestering my mom and brother as they were glued to the TV. "What? What's wrong? What's going on??" and they kept shusshing me and pulling me away from our (dinky black and white) TV (with the rabbit ears covered in foil).
 
I was 17 years old spending the day at Montrose Beach (Chicago) with my family. Everyone on the beach was listening to the announcement on their tranistor radios. It felt like a momentous occasion--hence the reason I still remember it so well.
 
How appropriate that recently at a party the SkepChicks provided a drink made from Tang and vodka called a "Buzzed Aldrin".
 
lionking said:
Okay, I know this is only relevant to baby boomers like me, but where were you and what were you doing 40 years ago as Neil Armstrong made that great leap?
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I was too young for the first landings, but have vague memories of the last one or two, and better ones of Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz link-up.

A more troubling memory I have is, aged almost six, of a family holiday muted by the concern of the adults to events far away that I now know to have been the Munich Olympics Massacre.
 
I was at the beach listening to the event on the radio. (I don't think we had a tv at home yet, and it didn't occur to me to go to a retail establishment to watch. And anyway, I was at the beach.)

My daughter was still inside my belly (she'd emerge seven weeks or so later), and I remember thinking that she would never live in a world that man hadn't stepped off our planet onto another extra-terrestrial body, and that was simultaneously weird and somehow momentous to me.

I remember looking up at the moon that night thinking I should be able to see the shadows of the guys jumping around on it.
 
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