And 40 years ago ... You saw?

[Monica Lewinsky]

40 years they launched TODAY and got there on July, 20, 1969.

Then they got out and did amazing things. Kinda like a cartoon, but well done. No sense looking at it again for the 1,000th time with actual film. Music is GREAT!



I was a freshman in high school at the time and was at a campground with my dad and my uncle. It was amazing at 3:00 p.m. everyone at the campground stopped what they were doing and cranked up their radio[s] to listen to the landing. Get real, at that time no one dragged a 21" B&W TV to a campground in 1969. Are they gonna make it ... or die?

That day reminds me of the Kennedy assassination. I can remember EVERY moment of what I was doing and where I was at.

We packed up the tent and raced home [into Chicago at that time] and got home in time to be 20 minutes ahead of Neal's planned opening of the hatch and watched it on horrible B&W TV. At that time only the rich had color TV sets. Did't matter the transmission was in B&W!

I can remember at our house dad/mom gathering everyone [about 30 people] saying "shut up and listen & watch. This is history being made".

And I lived it. It was beautiful.

Beats what is happening NOW.

[Rhodes]

Of course I saw, I set the TARDIS to that date and see the takeoff of the Saturn V!

Unfortunate, I'm to youbg to have see it, but parents and grand parents saw it. The natiotal television channel already existed for some years, my father familly also had the luck to have a Tv set, so the close friends and neighbours saw it in my grandparents home, acording to what my father tells!

But they wasn't the first on the moon...

[Biggles]

Well I'm a wee bit too young to have seen in myself

But my mom tells me that she was in London at the time, watching the landing at Picadilly Circus, they were showing it on the big screens there.

Seen the footage though, sure is bad quality, but still, it is history in the making.

Is that Tintin card made by Hergé?

[bookworm_020]

My parents watched it when they were at university together. Australia holds the world record for longest coverage of the event! Not sure why!

[TarJak]

I vividly remember watching as a child. My grandfather gave me a replica Eagle patch which I got my mum to sew onto my favourite T shirt.

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

My parents watched it when they were at university together. Australia holds the world record for longest coverage of the event! Not sure why!

Mainly because it happened during our daytime and we were the ones beaming it to the rest of the world via Parkes and Tidbinbilla radio telescopes.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Is that Tintin card made by Hergé?

Yes, Hergé and Bob De Moor! I took it from an spectial edition of Science & Vie "Tintin chez les savants" (Tintin "bettwen" the wise men, I think) Hergé entre science et fiction!

[SteamWake]

I vaguelly remember watching it although it really dident impact me at the time. I was too young to realize the importance.

[Biggles]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

Yes, Hergé and Bob De Moor! I took it from an spectial edition of Science & Vie "Tintin chez les savants" (Tintin "bettwen" the wise men, I think) Hergé entre science et fiction!

I like how they illustrate Armstrong's reaction with a simple questionmark.

[Blacklight]

And 40 years ago ... You saw?

The inside of my mother's womb.

[Task Force]

I wasnt even thought of 40 years ago... (my parents were just little kids. lol.)

[Fish]

My wife was 5 months pregnant from our first born.