Where Were You When Man First Reached the Moon? - Page 3

FizzyWater · 07-18-2009, 12:25 AM

I don't remember.

I was 8 1/2 with two younger brothers...I was probably off beating them into submission.

Donnageddon · 07-18-2009, 02:16 AM

In my pajamas. My parents woke me up to watch the historic event.

Being only 8, it did not make as much an impression on me if as it were to happen now.

Guess I will have to wait till 2020 now.

I imagine I will be in my pajamas then too, and having someone wake me up.

Donnageddon · 07-18-2009, 02:18 AM

The one thing I do remember was that from that point on you could not threaten another kid with "Oh Yeah! You wanna be the first man on the moon! POW!"

Sparrow · 07-18-2009, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

I rank that moment as one of the top experiences in my life...

Me too; it was mind blowing stuff for a nipper. (Escape velocity - seven miles a second!!

)

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!--"

BuddyBoy · 07-18-2009, 03:40 AM

Trying really hard to stay awake for the first moonwalk.

MickeyC · 07-18-2009, 07:24 AM

I was working in Okinawa then and had just gotten home from a mid-shift and watched the landing on black and white TV. And could hardly sleep when it was over.

Dylrob · 07-18-2009, 08:15 PM

I was but a single cell in my mother's immature ovary.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 07-18-2009, 08:34 PM

I was still a collection of yet unmingled (and not due to be mingled for another 4 months) cells in my parents' bodies...

hnoto · 07-19-2009, 12:45 AM

I was just over one month old. We were living in Lompoc, CA and my father was on work-study with NASA, assigned to Kwajalein Atoll. I'm sure we were watching.

jgray · 07-19-2009, 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

I was watching on a black-and-white TV.

We had COLOR! My father worked at a TV repair shop at the time. I wonder how many years it took him to pay off that big Zenith console?

As for the Moon landing, I sat, glued to the TV for the entire mission. I almost didn't sleep or eat, for fear of missing something. And for a tie-in with the sad news from Friday, I still remember how affected Walter Cronkite was when we all heard those words "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

doreenjoy · 07-19-2009, 01:29 AM

I was six and I'll never forget it. Everyone in the small Appalacian town I lived in was indoors, glued to TV sets. I've never seen anything like it (no, not even the O.J. Trial). Everyone was talking about it for months.

I remember when I went back to school in September, the nuns told me someday I'd be living in outer space.

ETA: Like DixieGal, I determined right then to be an astronaut (with my father's encouragement; he was a nuclear engineer and raised me to think like a man). But I developed severe myopia at 9, and that dream died.

jgray · 07-19-2009, 01:33 AM

Thinking about it more, I also remember thinking at the time that it sure was taking a long time to land the LEM. Of course, years later we found out the reason was that the planned landing site had some large bolders that didn't show up on the photos of the time. Buzz Aldrin had to visually find a better landing site. When they touched down, there was almost no fuel left!

Sparrow · 07-19-2009, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgray

Buzz Aldrin had to visually find a better landing site. When they touched down, there was almost no fuel left!

Although Aldrin was the 'Lunar Module Pilot'; I think it was actually the mission 'Commander' - Armstrong - who was responsible for guiding the craft down.
While Aldrin was checking the altitude and velocity gauges; Armstrong took the decision to override the descent computer, he was the one looking out the window, and controlling Eagle's descent.

(In 1968, Armstrong had to eject from low altitude when the Lunar Lander training vehicle he was using went out of control - http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/45117332.html)

dreams · 07-19-2009, 03:32 AM

I was between 9th and 10th grade (age 14) and remember staying up the whole time with the family. Most of my friends were more excited about Woodstock than the moon landing and were taking their own "trips" at the time.

My mom served "TV" dinners (a rare thing for us) and popcorn for snacks as my two brothers and I lay on the floor watching our B & W TV.

We were amazed that those astronauts were way up there on the moon. It was nice to have something happy to experience instead of worrying about friends in Vietnam.

Of course, we thought that people would soon be living on the Moon

slayda · 07-19-2009, 09:21 AM

I was living in Gulfport, MS (second summer job between years at college), with no idea that hurricane Camil would totally destroy my apartment in a couple of months.

07-19-2009, 01:29 AM	#41
doreenjoy 01000100 01001010 Posts: 1,889 Karma: 2400000 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Polyamorous	I was six and I'll never forget it. Everyone in the small Appalacian town I lived in was indoors, glued to TV sets. I've never seen anything like it (no, not even the O.J. Trial). Everyone was talking about it for months. I remember when I went back to school in September, the nuns told me someday I'd be living in outer space. ETA: Like DixieGal, I determined right then to be an astronaut (with my father's encouragement; he was a nuclear engineer and raised me to think like a man). But I developed severe myopia at 9, and that dream died. Last edited by doreenjoy; 07-19-2009 at 01:43 AM.

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