Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. Where were you?
I was under 5. While i have many memories of my youth, this is not one of them. I probably was in bed (like the good boy tat I was and remain!).
I do know that I lived near the 'Space Coast' and that we did go somewhere and pulled off the road with many others and watched one of the lunar launches, but I dont know which one.
Were you alive yet? If you were, Do you remember where you were and have any memories you would like to share with us?
Quote from: clean on July 19, 2019, 04:03:35 AM
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. Where were you?
I was under 5. While i have many memories of my youth, this is not one of them. I probably was in bed (like the good boy tat I was and remain!).
I do know that I lived near the 'Space Coast' and that we did go somewhere and pulled off the road with many others and watched one of the lunar launches, but I dont know which one.
Were you alive yet? If you were, Do you remember where you were and have any memories you would like to share with us?
I was only 3 and have no memories of it. However, apparently in school I was always painting pictures of rockets going to the moon and when I was 5 wanted to be an astronaut.
I was 9 and I remember being glued to our black and white TV, taking in every blurry moment. I distinctly remember the front page of the NY Times: MEN WALK ON MOON.
I was yet a glimmer in my parents' eyes. Or, actually, not even that because I don't think they had met each other yet. Or gone to high school.
Today's Google Doodle is a beautiful cartoon narrated by Mike Collins. It made me remember the pop-up book that I had of the small child about the Apollo mission. It actively demonstrated such details as the 180 turn and dock move that the orbiter had to do to dock with the lunar lander mid flight. It was a really cool pop-up book. Do they even make these kinds of inspirational books for kids anymore?
I was born years after the landing but my Mom was (and still is!) a space nut. She remembers tracking Sputnik with her Dad's radio set up in the backyard.
My family did not have access to television at the time, for reasons, so we may have listened to news of the moon landing on radio. And then I know I read about later. Since then, I have seen the original footage so many times, I feel as if I remember it!
I was 21, living at home at the time. I'll never forget watching the landing on TV with my parents. We were mesmerized, and the emotion we felt when Neil Armstrong's boot hit the surface of the moon is almost impossible to describe.
When I was in fourth grade, my goal in life was to be the first woman on Mars--Mars, because I thought that surely, a woman would have already gotten to the moon by the time I grew up. I remember remarking to my parents that there was still time to be the first woman on the moon!
It was my brother's birthday and he and I were playing with his new toys as the coverage aired. I distinctly remember my father telling us to watch, saying that it was something we'd remember all our lives.
Quote from: mythbuster on July 19, 2019, 08:16:36 AM
Today's Google Doodle is a beautiful cartoon narrated by Mike Collins. It made me remember the pop-up book that I had of the small child about the Apollo mission. It actively demonstrated such details as the 180 turn and dock move that the orbiter had to do to dock with the lunar lander mid flight. It was a really cool pop-up book. Do they even make these kinds of inspirational books for kids anymore?
They still make science pop-up books and Amazon has pop-up books on the Apollo mission listed for sale as of 10 minutes ago.
I was a junior in high school.
I don't recall much discussion, nor do I think we had an assembly to watch any coverage (as we did in elementary school, for the earlier Mercury and Gemini events, with a TV in the gym that no-one could really see, and the sound turned up, which we could hear).
But that probably had to do with a couple of the astronauts being from our state (and one, later, from our own suburb of Col's, OH).
A scene I recall more recently seeing was in the George Gently series, which I watched a couple years ago, in which Martin Shaw is invited into the home of one of the victims of a crime he's covering, because they have a tiny TV and they're all crowded into a little flat watching.
It begins with them both looking up at the moon, and the host saying, "Awww, she'll no more be a virgin after tonight...."
It's come to represent more what I think of the landing than anything...wonderful as it was in many ways, why do we have to pollute other worlds in the name of heroic exploration (even if I'm all for scientific research, the amount of junk left from that or any other landing strikes me as insouciant and irresponsible... )?
Colonizing male gaze may be indictable, in part....
M.
Quote from: mamselle on July 19, 2019, 05:07:15 PM
It's come to represent more what I think of the landing than anything...wonderful as it was in many ways, why do we have to pollute other worlds in the name of heroic exploration (even if I'm all for scientific research, the amount of junk left from that or any other landing strikes me as insouciant and irresponsible... )?
You probably don't want to look at the research for the newest landing mechanisms for exploration on bodies that don't have an atmosphere and thus cannot use a parachute. We had a great interview just the other day with someone who had worked in that area and it was pretty eye-opening.
Like ex_mo, my parents had yet to meet.
In DC, there's a projected image of a rocket on the Washington Monument as part of the Apollo 11 anniversary.
For those who are fans of the British mysteries series "Endeavour," the 6th season included Apollo 11 landing in Episode 2 directed by actor Shaun Evans.
In my twenties, vacationing at the parents' rental on the shores of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville. Only memory is staring at the TV, but not much detail. My brother, then in Vietnam, has much more recalled memory (lying on top of his flooded bunker, looking up at the moon).
I was nearly four months old.
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I wasn't. :-)
Quote from: hmaria1609 on July 19, 2019, 06:36:41 PM
Like ex_mo, my parents had yet to meet.
In DC, there's a projected image of a rocket on the Washington Monument as part of the Apollo 11 anniversary.
For those who are fans of the British mysteries series "Endeavour," the 6th season included Apollo 11 landing in Episode 2 directed by actor Shaun Evans.
Oh, I need to catch up on those!
M.
Quote from: mamselle on July 20, 2019, 06:23:54 PM
For those who are fans of the British mysteries series "Endeavour," the 6th season included Apollo 11 landing in Episode 2 directed by actor Shaun Evans.
Oh, I need to catch up on those!
M.
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I've been following the show since it began in 2012. It's been renewed for a 7th season!
I not yet born at the time, and my parents didn't meet until 8 years later.
My first clear memory about space exploration was Voyager 2 reaching Neptune in 1989. We were on a family vacation in California at the time, and I remember my parents making my siblings and I watch a television program that showed what was going on.
I have clear memories of watching the moon landing with my mother. Her own mother was in the hospital following a heart attack, and we were at my grandparents' condo. The fold-out sofa's bed (where we slept when visiting) was open, and we sat on its edge, not more than two feet from the TV, watching Neil Armstrong take his famous first step on the moon's surface. I was 11, and even by the standards of the day, the black-and-white image was frustratingly grainy. We puzzled over Armstrong's famous words (not hearing any "a" between "for" and "man"), but were so excited by the accomplishment that we lost no sleep over his meaning.
I never in a million years thought we'd stop sending people into space to explore first Mars, then the remaining planets in our system. I thought that by now, we'd be learning all about Saturn and Jupiter, at least, and might even have the beginnings of a colony on the moon or Mars. At least, I hoped so.
I was at my grandmother's house in rural Louisiana. My grandmother was not well off and worked long hours to support herself after my grandfather's death. We kids were left with her "housekeeper," who my grandmother essentially supported as well. I remember the housekeeper grumbling that it was all fake, that they were in a warehouse in Arizona or someplace. This and the aftermath of the JFK assassination were my introduction to conspiracy theories.
I only barely remember the run-up to the landing and the first step. The first step itself, of course, was at some godawful early hour of the morning where I was, so all I really remember is a vague sense of sleepiness. But the landing itself, I was up late for that.
Very, very unborn. So unborn. Not even close to born.
In a Headstart program for children starting school in the fall. We watched TV with Armstrong bouncing around on the moon over and over and over. Boring.
Mom woke my siblings and me so we could watch. We were all preschool age. I was the only child not asleep on the rug in front of the TV, so my parents took me outside to look at the moon after Cronkite signed off. Dad told Mom he'd seen the mushroom cloud at White Sands and now watched a man walk on the moon. He was amazed at his great luck to live in a time of wonders.