The Summer of '69, two major events; Woodstock &The Moon Landing. Which has had the most impact?

Answer 1

Nice question. I was a toddler when both happened. My entire family and neighborhood yelled at me to come inside to watch as the earth was viewed for the first time rising above the horizon of the moon. ( We had a huge 24 inch T.V. console) I remember how big of a deal it was. In retrospect, it was the culmination of Kennedy's charge that we would land on the moon. I even had pop-up books that predicted our colonization of the moon by the next century. That is past though. No one today is interested in space anymore, or the promises it holds.

Woodstock, I saw the movie for the first time around 11 years old. I loved rock, but even more so was entranced by the images of the rebellious youth living for three days on nothing but an ideal of love and peace. Music that has proved timeless, a severe rainstorm turned into a muddy playground, promoters who wanted to make bank suddenly realizing the moment was more important. It could only happen at the time. How wonderful was that! I (no lie), used to tell it as a bar story, that I was the little blonde girl dancing in the mud in the movie. (Big Lie!) So my vote is Woodstock had the bigger impact for the mere fact the music and performances still inspire, the idea is still wanted, and the people showed you can live peacefully, if only for a moment in time.

Answer 2

It depends on what kind of impact you are talking about. The moon landing brought about an ever increading use of instruments and the need for a technical and skilled workforce. More and more people went to school and more and more science was learned which gave us the transistors, microprocessors, memory chips, motherboards, shrinking power supplies, etc which allows us to even interact within the realms of Yahoo but more importantly the pc and the large machines before them were the results of work done to bring someone to the moon. Woodstock was just a concert, it may have made more people question authority and reality, which is wonderful, but it probably had no lasting impact.

Answer 3

Personally, it was the moon landing - I remember staying up to watch... Astonishing how clearly I see the B&W TV images...
The generation of engineers that made that possible went on to do more great things, but never made the noise that the millions of baby-boomers that were coming of age made... so,
societally, it was easily Woodstock that people made much more of - though as a child in the 60's I wasn't aware of it. It was the marker (or at least an identifiable point in time) when the Boom Generation could say they came of age. They were cool, they were now - they had changed the face of music.

Answer 4

i would have to say woodstock rather than the moon landing. the moon landing showed a great and giant leap in our ability and our intelligent's it showed what we are able to do.
woodstock how ever defined the generation at the time, which gave us an exploration of the people and how they think and in which direction the future of this country is heading

Answer 5

The landing on the moon affected citizens in many nations, whereas Woodstock merely affected the citizens in America.

Answer 6

Moon landing, but I'm sure woodstock was a lot more exciting if you were actually there!!!

Answer 7

Moon Landing.

Altamont killed Woodstock, and that was three months later

Answer 8

Woodstock. It catapulted the revolution of drug trafficing.