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Where were you when humans first landed on the Moon?

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    Gregory Gadow
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    If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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      If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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      My parents let me stay up to watch it - I was ten and it was way past my bedtime - I knew it must have been important, but I don't think I realized why at the time. Mind you, at that age I thought it was a long way down to the shops.

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        If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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        Gregory.Gadow wrote:

        Where were you when humans first landed on the Moon?

        As opposed to what? Time Lords? [Edit] Ooh look - a Dalek has univoted (presumably not one called Dave). [/Edit]

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          If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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          About 4 months from being born :) But I hear that Mom and Dad watched it :)

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            If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            Gregory.Gadow wrote:

            If you weren't born yet, you can just move along Poke tongue

            Moving along. :)

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              If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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              Rama Krishna Vavilala
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              Gregory.Gadow wrote:

              when humans first landed on the Moon?

              You mean where was I when the great Moon landing hoax was broadcast on the television?

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                If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                11 years old and sitting in front of the living room television - a 14" black & white TV with rabbit ears (sporting the requisite strip of aluminum foil between them, of course).

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                  If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                  Toking a joint, tripping on a hit of acid and declaring it was all staged on a Hollywood sound set! :-D

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                    11 years old and sitting in front of the living room television - a 14" black & white TV with rabbit ears (sporting the requisite strip of aluminum foil between them, of course).

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                    Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                    Christopher Duncan wrote:

                    rabbit ears

                    I see, your fascination for bunnies and rabbits started when you were very young.

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                      Christopher Duncan wrote:

                      rabbit ears

                      I see, your fascination for bunnies and rabbits started when you were very young.

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                      Christopher Duncan
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                      What can I say? I was an impressionable young lad. :-D

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                      • G Gregory Gadow

                        If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                        My fathers home town in Sweden when I was 3, I do remember the whole family huddled around the TV (and it was a BIG family).

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                          If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                          Joe Woodbury
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                          Seven years old, watching it on a rented TV in our kitchen.

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                            If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                            Hmmm. Considering the date, I was out of 8th grade, preparing to enter high school, and spending my summer vacation writing a report on space travel for a class I got caught ditching all year just before the end of the school year. I watched every minute of the coverage on a black & white RCA television (yes, with rabbit ears and foil), that had a fine tuning knob which had to be adjusted every two minutes to keep the channel in tune. Later that summer I rigged a series of strings and pulleys to allow me to twiddle the fine tuning without getting off the couch. :-D It was awesome to watch, and lots more interesting than that stupid report I was writing...

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                              If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                              I was one month, 17 days old. So, probably asleep in my crib. :)

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                                11 years old and sitting in front of the living room television - a 14" black & white TV with rabbit ears (sporting the requisite strip of aluminum foil between them, of course).

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                                Go home Grandpa, your war stories are boring everyone! ;)

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                                  Go home Grandpa, your war stories are boring everyone! ;)

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                                  Christopher Duncan
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                                  Bite my shiny metal walking stick. ;P

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                                    Go home Grandpa, your war stories are boring everyone! ;)

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                                      Bite my shiny metal walking stick. ;P

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                                      :D

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                                        If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                                        Robert Surtees
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                                        I was in a California State park (Standish-Hickey i think) camping. One of the other families at the park had a tiny portable black and white TV, which in itself was pretty cool, plugged into a socket at one of the outhouses in the campground. We all circled around the set and watched. Will never forget.

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                                          If you weren't born yet, you can just move along ;P This question was prompted by something a couple of threads down. The Apollo 11[^] mission was launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. The "one small step for man" took place about six and a half hours latter on July 21, 02:39 UTC; the ETV lasted two and a half hours. Less than a day after landing, the Lunar Module lifted off the Moon's surface on July 21, 17:54 UTC and landed again on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 16:50:35 UTC. The mission launched just after my second birthday, and watching the television broadcasts are my earliest clear memories. Where were you?

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                                          Henry Minute
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                                          In front of the haunted fishtank with the rest of my family and some neighbours who didn't have TV. We had a proper antenna. ;P Which I made myself out of two pieces of 1" x 1", some copper rods and a copper loop with screw terminals for the connections. If I remember correctly it also had a wire mesh anti-ghosting screen at the rear. That damned thing lasted my parents for over 20 years.

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