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Jim in LA

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I was 12 when it happened. I still have a tape recording I made of it. Saw the landing on COLOR tv at a friends house. I remember they landed and it was several hours before they got out of the LEM lander. I have a plastic model kit commemorating the first lunar landing and have never put it together. Too bad the U.S. gubbamint has lost its vision for space exploration. Hopefully private companies will carry on the dream. Check out Spacex.com. Remember in November!
 
That was the same night that US Senator Ted Kennedy was almost killed. Thank goodness he knew how to swim. (;>))
 
I believe I was 3 - one of my earliest memories. I sat down in front of the tv early that morning and mom couldn't get me to move until it came on and was done. Probably the longest I've ever watched tv. Had the model too and built it - but its long gone now.

By the way - looks like I'll be in Louisiana in a few weeks. Baton Rouge. May need some resources for the project...

Tony
 
That was an eventful summer- Moon landing, Chappaquidic, Manson murders, Woodstock- I was in basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington. Was only vaguely aware of what was going on, between push-ups.
 
My recollection was that the videos were all black and white and the color was only from stills. I'll need to go back and look at that again. So, at 12 you were born the year Sputnik launched. I remember an interview shortly after Apollo 11 with Arthur C. Clarke [I believe] and one question was how the actual event compared to how the SF writers foresaw it. His comment was that in almost every scenario the world waited for the return to learn if the mission succeeded. Nobody predicted video transmission of the event.
 
According to the current occupier, only gubbamint can make things happen. It truely show a lack of vision of the people in office. Good leaders point us in the direction and let the talents and innovation of the people get there.
 
i remember it well, it was such a huge event in the day that even in school we gathered around a tv and watched all day hoping 1 that the astronauts would survive to return to earth and 2 that they were able to complete the mission as planed, now day the world is so disinterested that a shuttle launch is barley noticed and almost nobody cares what it went to do, its a shame
 
I have thought many times of my daddy being around for the Wright brothers first flight and lived well past the Moon landing. What a lot of history in his one lifetime. At least he didn't live to see what the USSA has become. TDF
 
I was in kindergarden 1/2 days so was at home with mom when first televised (older sibs were all at school). I was really excited about it, but disappointed when I saw it... really fuzzy and was black and white. Being little, I had thought it would be clear like any TV show - so it was one big bummer to me.

All pretty much went right over my head: moon walk, Nam (and its college protestors), women burning particular items of clothing, Manson, Woodstock... all just made it seem like the world was one weird and crazy place.
 
I was in my final Ranger training. The actual landing happen while I was on the training course. I really did not pay much attention to any of the other stuff. I knew I would be deploying to Vietnam in the next 60 days. I was focused on learning the skills I would need an spending my leave with my young wife and my first son.

I always was conflicted about the spending on NASA. I understand that we gain from the knowledge developed from the space missions. The big issue is that those require a large government to financially support those efforts. That I am very much against. The smaller the government the better off the common man is.
 
I was 4.

I remember watching on the old black and white when they took off.

But we were at a local lake beach when they landed. I remember someobody yelling out the news and lots of radios being turned up to listen.

I was FASCINATED with rockets at that age, and for several years after. Loved anything space related. Such an exciting time.

Of course, the space program went the way of any government run enterprise - big, bloated jobs program.

It was heartbreaking to watch that happen over the years.

They went from "get it done at any expense" to "any expense to get it done".

Now we have to hitchike into space!
 
It was a Sunday, July 20, 1969, two years after I got back from overseas. Took pix of it off my little TV- still have them. Newt was on Leno couple nights ago, talking about how many bucks NASA spent vs the current private investor project. But when you quit exploring, imagining, you drop behind.
 
That's because we are broke.We would have to borrow more money from the communist to support it.
 
sweet: "All pretty much went right over my head: moon walk, Nam (and its college protestors), women burning particular items of clothing, Manson, Woodstock... all just made it seem like the world was one weird and crazy place. "

Ain"t it amazing how perceptive youngsters are!

Just a kindergartener and already pegged the world for what it is.
 
Dad never got too excited about stuff like that.

He went out & looked at the moon that night after we watched on the Zenith.

That was huge for dad to do.

I remember when the space shuttle exploded. We were unloading a steer at the butch shop, it was not wanting to go off. Almost got me. we walked up front to the counter, and the butch says, The shuttle exploded into a million pieces. Farm truck didn't have a radio, was a long long drive back to the farm to hear/see. Watched the coverage for hours.

I know much of the space race was all about military, developing good missles; but it's so much more, it's a future, a quest for so many of us.

Sad to see that all mothballed, given up.

--->Paul
 
Good and sad memories -

Many years ago when I lived in Houston, saw the shuttle go over "piggyback" on its 747 headed back to Florida. Can't even begin to describe the feelings. It was incredible.

I had a two page spread from the newspaper showing the shuttle after the first mission put out by Rockwell which said "WE DID IT". I treasured it. Unfortunately, it fell victim to one too many moves.

Years later, I was on the back porch and heard a faint boom. Found out hours later, it was the Columbia exploding.

Its the sad end of an era when America did something no other nation on earth could do.
 
That was really something. To be able to see and hear it as it was happening. From 239,000 miles away. The news from here on earth was taking a bit longer, though. From Chappaquiddick, for example, it took almost 24 hours to get the initial report. Funny how that works. (;>))
 
Jim........in 1996-68, I had a job flying all over the world, calibrating the new Apollo S-Band tracking stations. The Gemini radios were too weak to go to the moon and back. The reason the original TV pictures from the moon were B&W was because there was NOT enuff power to transmit back in color. Any color pictures of Apollo 11 landing on the moon is Kodak film. I will admit watching the original landing in B&W and gittin' a thrill outta the American Flag being saluted. .......make-believe astronaut Dell
 
i was 13 when iwatched them at 2 in the mornin,,,i cant understand some of these people runnin around sayin it was all faked ,, but i do belief the last prez election was faked STOLEN by the same likes of such people who dont think we lande on themoon in 1969
 
When I heard the landing would be televised, I convinced the wife that we needed a color TV. Well, I was a bit disappointed when the broadcast was in black and white, but the fact that I had a new color Magnavox got me through it. I took a whole roll of 35 mm slides of my TV screen; still have those.

I was just as fascinated by another Apollo flight, the earlier one that circled around the moon and returned home. I stood out in the yard (December, I think) and just looked at the moon in disbelief.
 
I never could see any sense in wasteing all the tax payer dollars on outer space ? or the bridges to nowhere and all those other "gotta have" programs.
 
Nancy, was your place in the debris field when Columbia fell, or are you a bit too far north?
Some fell near my place. A guy I worked with, in town, found a chunk of raw flesh in his back yard. Government-types picked it up, but he never heard any feed-back from them.

Like you, I was also thrilled to see the shuttle piggy-backed on a 747. I was looking from my office window while it made a low and slow approach to Barksdale for re-fueling.

Also like you, I saved newspapers from all the major events of the time, starting with the Kennedy assassination and including all the space program launches. Still have them.
 
They took a great chance landing on the moon. Just think if they could not have lifted off, and would have starved to death on the moon. I don't think there is any reason to go to space, any longer. Stan
 
Moon and space program was cancelled/cut back as
the US was broke $$$ from activities in South East
Asia from the mid 1960's until 1975.
After the past decade of Middle East spending. One
has to wonder how much $$$ there is for the space
program, new military equipment such as the F-35 and
V22 turkeys. Fixing roads, schools, hospitals and
hiring cops takes $$$ too.
 
It is too bad we cant send all the of the politicians in DC there to see if there is intelligent life, then dont send enough fuel for them to get back to Earth. Aint I a 8ick.
 
Actually the V2 rockets launched by Germany near the end of WW2 were the first man made objects to reach outer space.
 
I happened to to repairing the front steps that day. So with the left over concrete I made a little plaque under a tree and scratched my name and the date in it.
 
(quoted from post at 12:54:16 07/20/12) It is too bad we cant send all the of the politicians in DC there to see if there is intelligent life, then dont send enough fuel for them to get back to Earth. Aint I a 8ick.
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If we sent all the politcians up there there would still be no intelligent life there :mrgreen:. The only thing color I remember about the event was the foil coating on the base of the LEM was gold, but I think I must have seen that in a later photo or a mock up of the LEM at NASA .
 
The other thing that happened in the 60's was Medicare/Medicaid, which cost as much every year as the total spent in the Middle East last decade.
 
Well get off the Internet and throw out your computer an cell phone cause they are a result of the space program.
Walt
 
I was in Rio Vista, CA when it happened a little black an white
that mother owned. Next I did was get a new color set.
The government gave us the day off.
Walt
 
I was 14. I though it was pretty cool at the time.....then I started paying taxes.

Now we have to figure if we want to pay for a space program that gave us velcro or government funded health insurance with our tax dollars. Guess health care won out.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 09:11:50 07/20/12) That was an eventful summer- Moon landing, Chappaquidic, Manson murders, Woodstock- I was in basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington. Was only vaguely aware of what was going on, between push-ups.
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I was at Fort Benning Georgia getting ready to go to Vietnam. But did see it on the company tv
 
I was working at the Boy Scout National Jamboree in North Idaho. I was working for a catering company that was feeding the bigwigs at the Jamboree and there were about 40 in our group.

Someone rigged up a makeshift antenna for a little black and white TV and all of us sat in the kitchen of the old WWII brig, the only building that was still standing from the Farragut Naval Base. The TV reception was poor, as we were quite a distance from the station in Spokane, but we all watched with rapt attention for a couple of hours. I did not know that the TV broadcast from the moon was in black and white--that was all we had available.

It sure brings back memories: one of the proudest moments in US history!
 
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