10:56:15 pm EDT 20July 1969-your thoughts

[wineturtle]

10:56:15 PM EDT 20 july 1969.


I was born before the transister was invented. My grandmother sailed into a New York Harbor that had no Statue of Liberty when she arrived from England.
We watched, her hand in mine, Armstrong step on the moon on the first 100% transister 21 inch color TV (`67Magnavox).


PS my grandmother lived from sailingships to a javelin being tossed on the moon(Apollo14-`71)------and beyond---
WHAT IS IN THiS GENERATIONS FUTURE?
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.clsout2.html

javelin at 135:21:20
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I asked a bunch of my agers about the moon missions this weekend and all remembered the golf balls but only one the Jav toss

[Marlow]

I got home from a month in Germany (HS graduation present) just hours before the landing. The whole family was huddled around our BRAND NEW COLOR TV to watch in total fascination. Walter Cronkite described it perfectly.

[SQUACKEE]

I think it was a Sunday? I went golfing and when i got home there was this grainy shot of them walking on the moon. My mom was "losing her religion" when they walked on the moon she said.

After all the turmoil and landmark happenings and personalities of the 60's it wasnt that big of a deal.

Beatles
Hippies
Political figures murdered
Cassicus Clay
riots
Woman's movement
Manson
Moon landing

[kuha]

It was a big deal to me. I was between my junior & senior years of HS, and had followed the space program pretty closely. It certainly seemed to suggest the "beginning" of something bigger and better than the unhappy and contentious things in the air on earth. For better or worse, that program was far more daring than any (manned) program since.

[Daisy]

The whole family was huddled around our BRAND NEW COLOR TV to watch in total fascination.

I was four but distinctly remember a similar event of the family gathering around the box, twice actually, for the landing on the moon and the splash down. Except we had a small black and white TV.

[bad hammy]

It certainly was a great symbol of what mankind can do if we put our minds (and money) to it. Too bad we let the space program go into a prolonged funk afterwards. Although I was watching it on TV, I have no 'burned in memory' recollection of the circumstances of actually doing so.

[Daisy]

Walter Cronkite described it perfectly.

Those of us in Britain had Patrick Moore.

[bad hammy]

Walter Cronkite described it perfectly.

Oh, you mean this?

There's a foot on the moon! Wow! Oh boy! Hot diggity dog! Yes sir!

[Halfmiler2]

I recall ALL the television stations pre-empting their regular shows. I never did see the end of one movie that never came back on.

One question since I was still kind of new to the sport at the time: what was the big European track & field meet that week and the big news of our sport at the time. I know it was the year after Mexico City and there wasn't a World Championship yet.

[Halfmiler2]

I got home from a month in Germany (HS graduation present) just hours before the landing. The whole family was huddled around our BRAND NEW COLOR TV to watch in total fascination. Walter Cronkite described it perfectly.

Was that when he had sci-fi author Robert Heinlein helping him?

[Dutra]

I was 12 at the time and was a big fan of the space program. I could sit for hours in front of the TV watching simulations of what was really happening. Still one of the most fascinating things I've ever scene.

[Marlow]

[quote=bad hammy]Oh, you mean this?

There's a foot on the moon! Wow! Oh boy! Hot diggity dog! Yes sir!

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Does that not precisely sum up all of our feelings?!

[Pego]

We had just arrived to USA a few months earlier and I just landed my first professional job. We stayed for a few weeks at a friends' house and watched the landing with her two small daughters. Like it was yesterday.

[bambam]

Hotel room in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Kenny Locke and I were to play the next day in the Record-American Junior Tournament at New Bedford CC, had played a practice round, went to an A&W Root Beer Drive-In for dinner, and came back to the hotel to watch the moonwalk.

[SQUACKEE]

Hotel room in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Kenny Locke and I were to play the next day in the Record-American Junior Tournament at New Bedford CC, had played a practice round, went to an A&W Root Beer Drive-In for dinner, and came back to the hotel to watch the moonwalk.

What did you have? I always liked the mama burger best.