Who can remember where they were today in 1969 - when man first set foot on the moon?

Question

I just saw on the news that it was 38 years ago today that Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon.

Watching the moon landing on TV is one of my earliest, vivid childhood memories. What do you remember about this day (if you were alive)?

Answer 1

Just a tinkle in my parent eye's!

Take care,
Kali :-)

Answer 2

I was visiting my fiance where she lived in Queens, New York.

I remember the feeling everyone had, it was almost magical.

I remember the words of Neil Armstrong..."Small step for a man, big step for mankind".

That was broadcast and then rebroadcast, over and over.

There was this admiration everyone had over the accomplishments of American ingenuity. That soon faded as the headlines kept pounding away on the Viet Nam fiasco, that soon was to be compromised in Paris, France negotiations.

My, how times change, but history repeats itself.

I got married soon after, and it lasted only 13 years.

Times got worse and worse, for many people. Jobs became tough, there was high inflation, and then they tried to solve economic woes by inventing this expression..."Whip Inflation Now", or "Win".

Today, mankind is trying to return to the moon. I don't understand why it wasn't continued, and only recently are they talking about further lunar exploitation.

There has to be certain minerals and valuable material on the moon, which may be of some use here on earth.

On this date in 1969, Americans felt proud of their accomplishments, but that was to be short lived.

Involvement in other peoples affairs is creating more and more problems in our world now, rather than solving them.

America should be a beacon, and should be looked upon with admiration for others to follow.

Not the way I expected it would all turn out.

Not at all.

Answer 3

I was 15. My whole family was sat round the tv. Even remembering it now makes my body tingle. Before the footage of the actual landing, there was a show....can't remember who put it on.....but The Beatles recorded All You Need Is Love live and it was put out as a best-selling single.

All this is through rose-tinted fond memories, and even if the moon landing was faked, as a lot of people suggest, it was still the greatest show on....earth?

Answer 4

I was at school in New Zealand and a television was put in the classroom.That's all I can remember, but news reports after that day have built up my understanding of the significance of then.Those were the simpler days when many great things happened and now people have too many opportunities to do things as with computers.I just get overwhelmed with all this stuff.

Answer 5

I was watching wide-eyed and totally focused on that TV. My family was all around me watching with the same rapt attention, marvelling at what was happening. It was the closest thing to a magical time that I've ever experienced. After watching Neil Armstrong descend the ladder and place that boot on the moon, I went outside to look into the sky and ponder the enormity of it and what might come in the future.

It was a wonderful time to be a kid.

Thanks for asking. : )

Answer 6

I was sitting in a hospital waiting room, my younger daughters appendix ruptured and she was full of gangrene, they gave her little hope of pulling through, she made it but, it took a month of recovery.
I went to 'Nam right after that for two years, never forget and remember sitting on a beach in Florida waiting for that big bird, with 85 pounds of gear and crying, wonder how in hell they could walk on the moon and couldn't stop fighting a war, I had to leave my family and maybe never see them again.

Oh yes! I was born, and remember all to well.

Answer 7

A child of 10, living in South Africa. Where we didn't have tv, but we listened on the radio and dashed outside to look at the moon in wonder. It was wonderful, great.

Answer 8

I was in Cloncurry, North West Queensland. No TV and next to no radio. We read about it in the newspaper a few days later. Did not cause any particular excitement, I do not recall even trying to get the radio news.

Answer 9

I was 7 years old and lived it Great Bend, KS. We had just moved there from Idaho and we didn't have any air conditioning in our apt. so my dad moved our TV out on the porch while we watched it. I am now 45 yrs old, but I remember it very well.

Answer 10

I don't know if it was THE day of the landing, but I do remember the freedom of a summer night, late at night, to be a teenager with his first car, looking up at the moon and marveling there were people up there. Thanks for your question.

Answer 11

I was in a bar watching it with my mates.One of them said,"That's a load of ba**s".He must have been one of the first conspiracy theorists as far as the moon landings are concerned.