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On this day 47 years ago....

MaxxVolume

MaxxVolume

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On this day in 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
 
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I remember it well. I was 10 years old and watching TV in my living room. Amazing that they accomplished that with the technology available back then. Very brave and determined people!
 
I wasn't born until September of that year, so my recollection of it is a bit fuzzy.

USA Today did have a nice article about it today, including a discussion of photos taken recently that show foot trails from the astronauts, gear they left behind, etc. I guess that rules out the Capricorn One theory that I never subscribed to . . .
 
Remember it well. I had followed all the early space programs - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. It was truly amazing!
 
That summer my family took a trip all around the country, towing our trailer with the Ford station wagon. We were at a campsite in Ontario and watched the landing on a small B/W TV we had brought along. It was an amazing sight. Whenever I'm in DC, I head to the Air and Space Museum and just marvel at the size of the space capsules and what the astronauts and capsules endured on those trips.
 
MaxxVolume said:
On this day in 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
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I was just discharged from my first Army hitch, back in the basement bedroom of our family home where I had a 45 inch monochrome Hertner Precision theatre stage television I'd acquired and assembled NOS from crates as a teen. I watched it on that set.
I remember Apollo 13 reporting problems when I was managing the pool hall at the U of U student union building.
I remember watching the Challenger booster explosion in the break room of Stout Dental clinic at Ft. MacLellan Al., when I was stationed there.
I also remember Nixon resigning when I was operating the dental clinic supply room at Ft. Jackson, S.C., on the first Sony 5 inch "tummy Trinitron".
So many indelible historical snapshot memories sparked by that moon landing recollection, when the future arrived forty seven years ago.
 
I am such a fanatic about the vintage space program. I collect books signed by the Apollo guys

Here is my son (the Aerospace Engineer who works for Orbital Sciences) with Buzz Aldrin, who just signed that book for him...for $150.00

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plus I have all these 6 DVD sets for each mission from Spacecraft Films
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I think that was the first live broadcast I had ever seen. Coming from Alaska we always had news a day late, flown up on Pan Am red eye. I was 14 years old and visiting relatives in Washington State when Apollo 11 landed and it was the most thrilling piece of news I had ever seen up to that point and probably ever since for that matter. I hope we start exploring our neighborhood again!
 
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