It was 38 years ago today...........

I was in summer school at college. I watched on someone's TV, but I was
so into my own little world that what was going on didn't quite click.

On 2007-07-21 06:22:08 -0500, "Dallas"
said:

I was a very bleary eyed 9 year old who's mom was nice enough to let him
stay up late and see it live on tv.......

"Bruce R" wrote in message
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

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Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

Bruce R wrote:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Sittin in my brother's living room in Cocoa Beach, FL. My brother at the
time worked for a NASA contractor that produced the comm systems on the
Apollo program. Just a few days earlier I was standing beside the VAB
when it launched.
KenG

I was shooting a documentary in Palau...

JT




Bruce R wrote:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Bruce R wrote:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

--

Bruce R

Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

i was in and out of the family garage, where the better of the two TV's
was. i was there for the momentous occasion, and then after awhile,
i was in and out, asking if anything was happening. %-)

redc1c4,
we got a color TV just in time for the 72 Olympics... bad timing.
--
"Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear
considerable watching."

Army Officer's Guide

NAS Whiting Field.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:52:21 -0400, "Bruce R"
wrote:

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

We had a Zenith 25" B& W television that we got back around 1954 or
55. Parked myself in front of that set for the launch and most of the
significant events, including the walk. Managed to arrange my work
schedule around it all. Recorded the whole thing on the Norelco
cassette recorder I got a month or so before for a graduation gift.
Vividly remember the grainy, hard to make out in the shadows image of
Neil stepping down from that ladder and Walter Cronkite being moved to
tears as he watched it on his monitors.

I still have that tape and all the newspaper and magazine articles.
Later added some JFK recordings to it. Never had a thought of VCR's
and DVD's and all the archival stuff we have now. Back then I felt
that I needed to record as much as I could to pass it on to my kids
and grandkids, for "I was there" when history was made.

A few years later I watched a number of launches all the way up to
Apollo 17 while attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Daytona Beach. Unfortunately, all I had back then was a crappy Kodak
Instamatic camera! Oh! Would that I had my current Nikkon N-70 back
then!!!

BTW - that Zenith was still being used by my kids as a video game
center at my parents house until the mid 1980's. One of my brothers
had hooked his Atari to it. Many hours playing Pong on a very dim B&W
screen with my oldest daughter. Sure don't make them like that any
more!

J. W. Alger

"Bruce R" wrote in news:46a13b15$0$16596
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Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Yeah I was in church In the town of Ewa Beach Hawaii when I first heard the
news and those famous words quoted by our preacher

BTW, I was 12 when Neil took that "small step," and I was in 1st grade when
JFK was killed and 9/11 I was sitting in front of my television watching in
absolute shock.


--

Chaplain (COL) Lonnie J. Potter
National Recruiting Coordinator
Headquarters (HQ) Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
"Bob" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:52:21 -0400, "Bruce R"
wrote:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Korat RTAFB, Thailand. F-4Es..
The day JFK died - Glasgow AFB, Montana B-52Ds.

it is the earliest childhood memory that i can absolutely fix in space
and time (there are some earlier ones, but i am not entirely sure when
or where they took place)

sitting in the living room of my grand parents, with lots of
relatives, watching the b/w tv sitting on top of large cupboard at
some ungodly hourr ..

...................................

the following is stolen from some blog (Chaos Manor) but it fits my
feelings perfectly:

"Once we walked on the Moon. When I was in high school in the 1940's I
read science fiction and knew that I would live to see the first man
on the Moon. I did not know I would live to see the last one.

NASA ate the dream. It is not lack of money. It is NASA, turf wars,
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

We have spent enough since Apollo to be half way to Alpha Centauri. We
cannot even go back to the Moon."

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