Moon Landing - Where were you?

[Undesired Walrus]

Anyway, forget Apollo. Where were you when they built that ladder to heaven? Did it make you feel like crying, or did you think it was kind of gay?

 

[Drudgewire]

In a crib. I was five months old at the time.

 

[D'rok]

I was a late term non-abortion at the time, but my life-support pod (Mom) watched it on TV with my Dad and the neighbours. So, technically, I was alive and "there". Don't remember it though.

In all seriousness, I am still in awe about it even though I didn't witness it, and my parents recount the moment as awe-inspiring.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I was 8, and my family was just about finished building an "extension" onto our house (the extension was slightly larger the original house, so it more than doubled the size). It wasn't finished yet, but I do remember watching the landing on TV in the "new" house.

It seemed like forever that we saw footage of the surface sliding by underneath before it landed. That's about all I remember of it--very exciting, but it seemed to me like it was almost down for a loooong time.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

Anyway, forget Apollo. Where were you when they built that ladder to heaven? Did it make you feel like crying, or did you think it was kind of gay?

 

[JHGRedekop]

My parents tell me that I was demanding to have my crib moved over next to the window, so I could watch Armstrong on the Moon directly instead of on TV.

 

[Tricky]

With Miss Atkinson.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I was going to watch the Walk on TV in my apartment with the lady who later became my wife. However, the set (a 15" black and white) was acting up and so we went down to Phillip's Square at Toronto City Hall and watched it along with a few hundred others on the large-screen TV they had set up there.

 

[erlando]

T -2 years.

I hope NASA or others get their ducks in a row and send someone to the Moon again. Or Mars. Or.. Any extraterrestrial body will do really. I want to experience it too!

 

[Mojo]

I think my dad woke me up so I could see it. I definitely remember watching it but can't be sure if what I remember is the live transmission or a re-run.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I think my dad woke me up so I could see it. I definitely remember watching it but can't be sure if what I remember is the live transmission or a re-run.

I was 9 at the time. They landed around 4:00 pm local time, and as I recall, were supposed to go for the moon walk a few hours later. But (IIRC) there was some sort of delay, and bedtime was around 9:00pm. My parents had no idea how long it would take, and didn't want us to sit up all night. So we went to bed, then they came and woke us up to come watch at about 10:00.

 

[shadron]

I had just graduated from undergrad school. I and my girlfriend had gone up to Evergreen, Colorado to listen to a concert of the Evrgreen Philharmonic, a summer camp for 16-20 year old music students from all over the country. We were in the lobby of the high school, and someone brought in a portable TV. There were perhaps fifty people there, plus 20 or so orchestra members all mixed together watching. After the landing they went right to the stage and started the concert, a half hour late, with Copeland's Overture to the Common Man.

 

[The Mutha]

I was 6 and we were living in Seattle, Washington at the time. I remember watching it on a rented TV (we didn't own a TV set until I was 13). Dad worked for Boeing attached to NASA as a computer programmer for the Apollo Rocket launches, so it was a BIG deal in our house! The space program has always been near and dear to our hearts. Go NASA!

 

[Darth Rotor]

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?

Me? I was a keen university student waiting for my lecturer to turn up for a Physics lecture. He eventually did about 90 minutes later and told us all, without apology, that he was watching the landing. "What did you expect?" was his response when asked where he was.

So I was wasting my time. What about you?

IIRC, I would have been outside playing baseball or getting into trouble of some sort that afternoon.
20:17:39 UTC would have been quarter after 4 or quarter after 5.

I do recall seeing the news on TV that evening with my dad, and the announcement that man had landed on the moon. I don't recall seeing any film clips on that newscast. Dad and Mom were pretty excited, as were my older brother and I.

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[Oliver]

Moon Landing - Where were you?

 

[ravdin]

Non-existent, for another 3 years. There are a lot of old farts on the forum!

 

[Soapy Sam]

Fort William, on holiday.
I saw it in the window of the TV shop- must have been the 21st.

 

[John Jones]

I watched it at home on an old blackand white TV in the basement.

 

[Nogbad]

I was 12 - saw it on a black and white TV. Thought it was really cool, I was convinced we were on the brink of moon colonies and the like. It never really happened - instead we lurched into the 70s, Cambodia and Laos, Watergate, more ME tensions and wars, hiked oil prices, industrial unrest and a major recession.

 

[GreNME]

I wasn't quite conceived yet. My parents were probably still in high school (well, my mom... dad dropped out in 10th grade). I didn't arrive until almost five years later.

For me it was Elvis' death. I remember asking my parents (I was about 7 at the time) "Who's Elvis?"

I have a vague memory of that. I was with my mom in a supermarket when she and a bunch of other people heard the news. I remember being very confused as to why all these adults were crying.

But the one that sticks most in my mind was Challenger. I was at school in a particular corridor - one that had the photos of all the previous years on the wall, near the front office. That was a shock.

I actually stayed home from school that day to watch. A teacher, a normal, regular, everyday person (astronauts may as well have been superheroes to my 12-year-old mind) was going to go into space. I watched it over and over when it happened, as the news agencies were replaying the footage, trying to see if there was any way for them to have survived. I don't think it actually sunk in for hours. It's hard to believe that superheroes could die.