49 years ago today....

[pbm]

Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
I was an 11 y/o boy flying to Europe with my grandma (on PanAm Airlines) when the pilot announced that "The U.S. has just landed on the moon"....the whole plane clapped.
I remember a little while later, my (contrary) grandma complaining to the stewardess that her 'Daiquiri' didn't taste right....I was embarrassed....it's funny what you remember....

 

[Zee09]

I remember being glued to the TV
It was monumental

 

[AZjeff]

I was at a Boy Scout camp in NW Pa. They brought in a TV and rigged an antenna so we could watch it happen. Real late, guys having trouble staying awake. Nothing like watching history being made, don't get many of those moments. Thanks for posting.

 

[Ursatdx]

7 at the time.
Mom and Dad made sure we watched.

 

[bdcardinal]

I wasn't born yet haha. My mom and both of her parents worked for Boeing at Cape Canaveral on the Saturn V program. By the time Apollo 11 happened they had moved to Santa Barbara where my grandparents worked for Aero Spacelines making the Guppy and my mom worked at Raytheon. My mom would tell me about watching the landing. She was at the Phillips 66 gas station her boyfriend worked at and some people pulled up to get gas. He walked out and told them to either pump it themselves or come watch the moon landing with them.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Speaking of space travel,our high school always assembled in the auditorium to watch the shuttle launches. It was 1986 when I was in the 10th grade and we assembled to watch the launch. Suddenly it exploded. The silence in the room was deafening. I remember all the girls started crying. No one even uttered a single word.

 

[PimTac]

All us kids in the neighborhood went to one friends house because they had a color television. The rest of us had black and white.

Little did we know......

 

[xBa380]

Would have been amazing to experience, that's for sure. I can't imagine when and if we end up on Mars in the future!

Even cooler considering I'm directly involved with the development of the rocket that will do it hopefully (SLS)! So I hope I get to see/experience it's success at some point.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

I wish it were 1969 and I was 17-3/4 years-old all over again. Boy-oh-boy, what I know now compared to then is incredible. I would do things a-lot differently today. Go on a completely different path of life into the future.

 

[SirTanon]

I always wonder how Mr. Gorsky made out that day.

 

[wymi516]

pbm, I was also 11 years years old and remember the flight and it's history well!

Neil Armstong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins

 

[cjcride]

Originally Posted By: Zee09
I remember being glued to the TV
It was monumental

Same here.

 

[skyactiv]

I wasn't around yet either. If space technology moved at the same pace it did in the 60's, we'd been to Mars and back by now.

 

[Inked]

I had fallen asleep in front of the big console and was woken up a few minutes before his first step. I was almost eight yo and had my favorite toy in hand, a Major Matt Mason action figure. Like it was yesterday.

 

[Vuflanovsky]

I was going on 8 years old too and it's one of those things that creates a big impression with the "where were you when" tag attached to it. I remember my mom buying me a commemorative moon landing glass that I still have after all these years. We lost mom the end of last year and the glass is more poignant now when I look at it.

 

[odotb]

I was in basic trainning at fort Benning Georgia. DI'S brought out a little 12 inch black and white television with a long extension cord. Set it up outside and made the whole company fall out and watch.

 

[marine65]

I was in the Marine Corps in Chu Lai South Vietnam.
I listened to it on the radio.
What impressed me was that would could fight this large war and still put a man on the moon.
We must have had a lot of money back then.

 

[Eddie]

I was 31 and working at Argonne labs in IL. We were all watching the launch. Ed

 

[danez_yoda]

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[Chris142]

I was 5 months old