Where were you when humans first landed on the Moon?
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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?
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?
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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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?
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?
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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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?
I was in Hyattsville, Maryland and watched it live (I was 13 years old).
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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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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?
I was 10 years old, and clearly remember waking up to the largest font ever used in headlines in The Times of India. The headline said "MAN LANDS ON MOON", with the byline, "It's true - they've done it!". I was awed, mesmerized and very humbled by the event. /ravi
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I was 10 years old, and clearly remember waking up to the largest font ever used in headlines in The Times of India. The headline said "MAN LANDS ON MOON", with the byline, "It's true - they've done it!". I was awed, mesmerized and very humbled by the event. /ravi
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I've always wondered how it was reported outside the US. I've seen images of American papers -- one, I think it was the Chicago Tribune, comes to mind right away -- and it would be interesting to see a copy of the Times of India headlines and article, or papers from other major cities around the world.
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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?
I wasn't due to touch-down for another 3 months. :) (born Oct. 16, 1969) I am still astonished what NASA accomplished back in the '60s. I'm fascinated with NASA's golden age of space flight (Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo).
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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?
I was about three. I must have been asleep in bed.
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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?
I was in Bundaberg, Qld, installing in a sugar mill a juice sampling system we'd built in Melbourne. I took the afternoon off to watch b&w in my motel room along with a couple of chemists from the mill. My then gf, now wife, dragged a tv into the classroom where she was teaching, so a bunch of 5yo's got a treat (and she got an earfull from the boss!)
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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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it was all staged on a Hollywood sound set
No, no, no. Sure, they were staged, but on the surface of the moon in large lunar soundstages... http://www.vgg.com/tr/tr_102201_moon.html[^]
