What do you remember from the first moon landing?

[Darkhorse]

I was 15, and watched the landing on TV. Even though everyone expected things to go smoothly, I was hit with surprise and wonder when the Eagle actually landed and the onscreen banner flashed "Man on the moon". It was almost unbelievable.

How about you?

 

[nChrist]

That first step onto the moon was awesome.

 

[Dave G.]

1969-79 was a rocky road for me but anyway. I thought they would accomplish it, was glad to see they did but overall indifferent about it. I do recall taking some pride in the US being there first.

 

[Chesterton]

I was with mom and dad at Six Flags. You have to wait in those long lines for the rides, so they had installed TV sets on the walls so people could watch. Maybe they thought they'd lose business that day if they didn't. I was about 5, and I don't think I grasped how big a deal it was. It was later in life I'd look in the night sky and go "wow, they actually traveled there and walked on that thing!" Amazing.

 

[Dave L]

I was playing music in a band at a famous nightclub in Detroit Mi.

 

[Greengardener]

I was on the phone, long cord to the handset but basically tethered to the kitchen wall, talking to my boyfriend. I did walk over to look at the TV in the den. Some things seemed more important back then, since my view was especially short-sighted back then.

Now when I see the moon my appreciation is more full. When I consider the moon and stars, what is man that You, God, are mindful of him?

 

[Willie T]

The biggest impression I recall was that it was in a flat black & white.

 

[Hieronymus]

Extremely blurry footage.

 

[Theophilus2019]

Amazed. There had been a massive build up for years. I felt the space age was finally here and we’d be on Mars by 1980. But I also remember the huge sense of anti-climax that grew in the weeks following, a sort of “so what” feeling. I think I was even more awed by the crackly reading of Genesis chapter 1 from Apollo 8 at Christmas 1968, even though I wasn’t a Christian at the time.

 

[JackRT]

In the mid-1950s I was a young teen and an avid science-fiction reader. My father said it was all "crap" and would never happen. Then one day in October 1957 I came home from grade 9, picked up the paper at the front door and saw the headline "USSR launches first earth satellite". My father was in his armchair. I gave him the paper and said "See Dad its happening in front of our eyes!" He was born before there were automobiles, before airplanes and lived to see men walk on the moon.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

I was travelling to my home on a suburban bus and was hearing it through someone's radio, and just as the landing was happening the bus driver told the guy to turn his radio off. No one had the courage to tell the bus driver that it was the report of the first moon landing. I think the bus driver was a hen pecked husband at home and a little Hitler in charge of his bus!

 

[Heavenhome]

I was 8 years old and in Grade 3 at school and remember our class all watched it on TV as every school in Australia did.

 

[Lady Donna Marie]

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[yeshuaslavejeff]

"What do you remember from the first moon landing?"

I remember being oh so very l i g h t ! because of the low g r a v i t y ......






Then, now,

thinking about another moon "landing", I wonder when it lands ? where are they going to put the moon ?

.... It was almost unbelievable. How about you?

yep....

 

[JackRT]

My father was born in 1895. He said "I was born to witness the first automobiles, the first airplanes, not one but two world wars, atomic bombs, jet airplanes and man on the moon."

Now we have whackos denying history that people have actually lived through.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

My father was born in 1895. He said "I was born to witness the first automobiles, the first airplanes, not one but two world wars, atomic bombs, jet airplanes and man on the moon."

Now we have whackos denying history that people have actually lived through.

Or, as politics and corporations and technology breaks families up more and more for the last century,

you see daily everywhere in the USA, in the news, in "churches", in most places,

older people "Golden Eagles 50+" ..... more and more alone, abandoned, neglected, ignored ....

while 'techno' babble increases daily, making former maybe decent human beings less so.....

 

[Lady Donna Marie]

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[Rescued One]

My boyfriend and I were at his friend's house. The friend's parents were having a cookout. Afterwards we watched the moon landing on their TV. I wonder why we were there. I don't remember their names and never heard from them again.