July 20, 1969

[Lochloosa]

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on another world, landing on the moon in the Eagle while Mike Collins orbited in Columbia above

[JHB]

1. +1

:patriot:

[av8rdave]

2. Hard to believe that was 41 years ago

I remember watching it on my grandparents' black & white TV.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I saw it on my grandparents' color TV

But it still looked like it was in black and white

[niyad]

3. k and r--I remember sitting in front of the tv--waiting for that first step

[Bluenorthwest]

4. What a day it was.

[tularetom]

6. One of those events where you always remember where you were

I was siting at the top of the Cuesta grade in San Luis Obispo CA watching my radiator boil over. After a trucker stopped with some water and I got the car started again, I heard the news on the radio.

The other big news that day was that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been involved in an accident which took the life of a young woman.

And I was driving the same stretch of road, three weeks later, when I first heard the story of the Tate LaBianca murders by the Manson family.

Eventful time, summer of 69.

[femmocrat]

7. I remember watching it with my dad. He was so excited!

After all the tragedy of 1968, it felt good to be proud again.

[doc03]

8. I was stationed in Germany at the time, we were at a

Check border outpost near Regan. We watched it on a little black and white TV in the First Sergeant's office. The German civilians we called them (Rads) had a party for us at our camp, we had a blast all the free beer and German food we could eat.

[tridim]

9. Hmm, wonder if the media will mention this?

They've already mentioned Lindsay Lohan's court date about 54 times this morning.

[Posteritatis]

24. They made a decent fuss over the 40th

I can understand 41st sliding. I've seen a couple mentions but nothing big.

[meegbear]

10. ...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. 500 years from now, everyone will believe that was a real paper's real first page.

:thumbsup:

[slackmaster]

11. K&R - I remember that day very well indeed

:kick:

[jimlup]

12. Wow! Thanks for reminding me!

I'd forgotten.

[Crabby Appleton]

13. I was in Vietnam - had been there about a year

I heard about it but no TV where I was.

[uppityperson]

14. k&r. What a day and evening that was. Incredible.

[onethatcares]

15. it rained like crazy in southeastern Pennsylvania that day

and the next three days too.

I wonder why we never went back to do all that cool stuff like play frisbee and send rockets further out from there.

I did see that the lunar rocks have been stolen and recovered almost as many times as the No 2 AQ guy has been eliminated.

Oh well. Now the Commies have the space station, the Commies have the strongest economy, and all we got is memories. It's kinda sad really.

Whoda thunk?

[Beaverhausen]

16. thanks for the reminder. One of our greatest moments

I remember it so well.

[Earth_First]

17. No, they did NOT!

:hide:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. I was forcibly put in front of the TV and found everything supremely boring.

But hey, I was 4.

Today I'm supremely grateful my parents did that.

[conscious evolution]

20. Not only did Neil walk on the moon that day

I found a siver dollar and saw a waterspout at the beach that day.It is also my dads birthday.
Quite an eventful day for a six year old.

[AnArmyVeteran]

28. What a cool day!

[pipi_k]

21. I was almost 17 when that happened...spent the day with

a few of my "hippie friends".

Came home and watched it on TV.

Seems like only yesterday...seems like a hundred years ago.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Well, you're 41% correct. -nt

[Roon]

22. neat!!

[Beringia]

25. Aldrin was on dancing with the stars

I think he spired some people, but was stiff.

[Motown_Johnny]

26. I was only six, but one of my very earliest memories

is my father taking me out on the steps to the backyard and pointing up to the moon, explaining to me that men were up there for the very first time.


Thank you for the reminder.

[AnArmyVeteran]

27. I was a kid watching it with my parents. We were so excited.

That one moment brought the entire world together. People around the globe watched as Neil Armstrong put the first step on the Moon. What an incredible accomplishment. And we lived in a time when the most complicated endeavor of mankind was successful and we returned our astronaut heroes back to their earthly home. In all of the history of mankind's presence on this world, there will never be another magnificent moment as great the moon landing. The generation of people who were fortunate to have been able to witness the moon adventure are lucky indeed.

When I grew up I worked on both the Space Shuttle and Space Station projects at NASA in Houston. It was so cool talking with all the old timers who were part of that historic event.

Side Story: When our astronauts returned to earth the moon rocks were kept under close security with lots of guards. They were kept in a building at NASA that had three inner buildings inside of it. In was impossible to be able to sneak in because security was so tight. But one thing NASA didn't think about was all of the moon dust that stuck on the suits after every moon mission. One department at NASA was tasked with designing and maintaining the suits and 'suit techs' (space suit technicians) vacuumed off pounds of moon dust from the space suit's outer fabric. I knew many of them who had test tubes full of pure moon dust. Unfortunately, their treasures could never be sold because I don't think NASA would like having moon dust being advertised on Ebay.

[raccoon]

29. The high-water mark of the Empire. nt