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

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

Yep! I was a member of one of the two PanAm B-707 crews laying-over
at a very small hotel in Prestwick, Scotland. The only TV was in the
also very small lobby, lounge and bar. The 80 year old bartender
became very upset when we kept him up until the early hours of the
morning waiting for Neil to exit the lander. A great time was had by
all...except the bartender.

Ask me where I was when Powers was shot down....yep, right there at
his point of intended landing in Norway. They woke us up, stuffed us
into our P-2V, and said to go anywhere but there. We didn't know what
had happened until reading the newspaper when we arrived in London a
few hours later.

Bob Moore

Yes I remember it well - we didn't have a local tv transmitter at our town.
In fact we had no local transmitter intil late 1974.
We were over 200 miles from the nearest tx. It meant having an external
aerial placed about 20 or 30 feet or more high above the house plus a high
gain aerial plus (if you could afford the extra) and rf pre-amplifier.
The very few people that did have tv sets in our town had b&w (no colour tv
then) and relied on the occasional burst of good signal propogation to see
(maybe) 5 or 10 minutes of only just watchable picture. One of our local
petrol service stations had a tv set, and watch we did - through the most
horrible "snowy" picture we just caught a glimpse of that historic moment.
:-)

Graham
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I'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing.


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Summer camp. First time and only time in the campgrounds history that
campers were permitted to watch TV.

Chaplain (COL) Lonnie J. Potter
National Recruiting Coordinator
Headquarters (HQ) Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
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no as I would of just turned 1


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

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Bruce R





Primary school, year 7. For us it was around midday, I got to stay
home for the landing and the "one small step..." but then had to go back
to school.


Must admit, one of the benefits of being middle-aged is that I was watching
moments like these - that to my kids are like ancient history.


Perversely, I'm much more moved by Apollo 8's Christmas Eve sojourn at the
back end of the moon. We were watching the telecast - more concerned
with the following morning and my father telling us "pay attention you
*******s, this is history happening"




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Cheers

Dave Kearton

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Quality assurance (control) rep VT-21 NAS Kingsville Tx.
Took the day off and talked to Lesperance on the phone as the stroll began.

vr,

jm

What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
computers that they used.
In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
intergrated circuits.
By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
achievements all the more spectacular.

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

In some motel room, somewhere in East Central Florida. Spent the
morning of the 16th in the Post Office parking lot in Titusville, 11
miles from the pad.

I was 8.

I remember all that like it happened yesterday.

All these years & we should have been cranking out Saturn V bossters
the way the Soviets have cranked out R-7's. Damnit.

-Kevin in Indy (Certified {or is that certifiable?} Space Cadet)
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Sure do. I was at university and it was mid morning. Everyone stopped to
watch the telecast. Other "great" moments that have stayed in my mind are
the murder of JFK, 11th Sept, Boxing Day tsunami, Cyclone Tracy, and the day
the Queen's representative sacked the elected Australian goverment.

Doug