Community Chat

[Oznell]

Nice, historically significant posting on X from Buzz Aldrin on a remarkable achievement on this date in 1969--

My Mother was entranced with this event, and somewhere, in a scrapbook, is a blurry, curling Polaroid shot that she or my Dad took from the TV screen.  A precious artifact.

It's great to savor the landmarks in history and science that will be forever studied and discussed, by generations to come.

Glad we still have the brilliant Buzz Aldrin, who's 94.  Remembering the late, wonderful Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins as well. 

[Spacrazy]

Gosh, it seems like yesterday (really, it does!). When this picture came across our screens and it stopped us in our tracks ~ I still get that same feeling today when I see it.

[lilywhite]

I worked on the Apollo 11 program. 

[I am still oxox]

I remember staying up late to watch the coverage in my parents livingroom of the Bronx apt we lived in at the time. we watched it on and old black and white tv because the screen was bigger than our portable color tv.

[PA Mom-mom]

@Oznell  I remember it well. It was a Sunday night. I was working the counter at a local drive-in, and our boss brought in a tv to put into the back room. We closed, and everyone stayed to watch the moon landing. It was breathtaking!

[Love my grandkids]

Who could ever forget the wonder of this? I was 6 months pregnant on a very warm July day in Southern California.

[monicakm]

@Oznell 

That is a wonderful throwback to a historic event. I've always been fascinated with space and space travel. If civilian space travel was a thing, would you do it? If I could afford it, I would. I don't remember seeing the specific event as I was 10 years old at that time. My dad signed up for the space Program but he wasn't chosen. I can't stand those people who think it was all a hoax!

[OKPrincess]

I was 15 yr old and watched it on our black and white tv with my family. 

I don't remember the time of day (Central).

[PamfromCT]

My DH worked on the Apollo Peogram, having just graduated with two degrees in physics.  His first job, like so many dedicated people determined to fulfill President Kenneth's promise to put a man on the moon by the end of that decade, was as an engineer.

His primary work was on the back pack.  Back in those days, computers were in their infancy.  He likes to relate that most of the calculations to put a man on the moon were made by a slide rule, something most people would not even recognize today.  He still has his slide rule!

I worked in the financial area of our company's moon shot efforts.  Where we met, fell in love, and married in 1966.  The time working on the program was intense, sometimes working six days a week, but very exciting. 

An excellent book on the period is published by the Smithsonian, called "SPACEFLIGHT, the Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiosity," Foreword by Buzz Aldrin.  Hope it is still available.  It was such a wonderful time of teamwork and accomplishment for our country.  I still marvel at the bravery of Astronauts.  It was a time of great unity and pride.

[Group 5 minus 1]

My eldest was not quite two, but I made sure he watched it. Just texted him. He said he has zero memory of it.

At the time my hope was that whether he remembered or not,he would be able to say he watched the moon landing.