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I was 5. I dont think the full weight of what was happening meant much to me until later.
I remember watching it though. My grandfather and uncles were there.
I remember watching it though. My grandfather and uncles were there.
It was a Sunday. July 20, 1969, I was at home watching it on TV. I had just graduated from high school a month or so before.
I remember as a kid watching Sputnik come through the sky over my back yard. Lots of people in the neighborhood were outside waiting for it to pass over in the sky. I was 6 then and thought it was cool, but didn't quite why it was a big deal. It was just a light in the sky that resembled a plane coming over at night.
I've always imagined a Moon base where launches could take place outside the intense gravity of Earth. We really do need to develop technology that allows cheap flights to the Moon. Maybe an anti-gravity system that solves the problem of huge amounts of fuel necessary to leave the Earth before employing another type of drive system for secondary propulsion.
Maybe that will happen eventually.
'Antigravity' Propulsion System Proposed
I remember as a kid watching Sputnik come through the sky over my back yard. Lots of people in the neighborhood were outside waiting for it to pass over in the sky. I was 6 then and thought it was cool, but didn't quite why it was a big deal. It was just a light in the sky that resembled a plane coming over at night.
I've always imagined a Moon base where launches could take place outside the intense gravity of Earth. We really do need to develop technology that allows cheap flights to the Moon. Maybe an anti-gravity system that solves the problem of huge amounts of fuel necessary to leave the Earth before employing another type of drive system for secondary propulsion.
Maybe that will happen eventually.
'Antigravity' Propulsion System Proposed
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I want to say that I was sitting in front of the b&w but memories are tricky and can't be trusted. Probably something I just saw on a media venue and claimed it for myself. Most likely I was like Enaud and playing outside, avoiding Mom's call to come in for a bath.
No Schwin's around my house at the time and our popular pastime after dark was to toss COPYRIGHTDMCA in the air and see if we can get the bats to fly low and dare them to get stuck in our hair.
A group of 12yr olds bonding over a dumb pastime on a hot summer night in 69. An Apollo landing was trivial, compared.
No Schwin's around my house at the time and our popular pastime after dark was to toss COPYRIGHTDMCA in the air and see if we can get the bats to fly low and dare them to get stuck in our hair.
A group of 12yr olds bonding over a dumb pastime on a hot summer night in 69. An Apollo landing was trivial, compared.
Resolution? That was NASA's fault. Popeye came in fine @60p.Glued to the set affixing tin foil to the rabbit ears…cursing the resolution.
Good luck.
Dont need no sticking computers to get the moon, brother. Its not rocket science!
I was 19 years old and in Army Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. I don't remember if we were allowed to watch it on the TV in the game room.
In my mom's ovary sack or whatever. I don't remember it.
For me it was the Challenger. Sigh. That was the big one.
Anna
For me it was the Challenger. Sigh. That was the big one.
Anna
I was 6yo and wondering what the big deal was.
I remember several events vividly and can, to this day, picture everything around me - the breaking news of the Cuban missile crisis every TV in school was tuned in, Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing and the Challenger. Odd, each vivid event involved President Kennedy in one way or another even if tangentially, only the Challenger was not narrated to me by Uncle Walter.
Yes, another example of the kind of event that that causes everyone to remember where they were at that time, albeit a much less happy one.
Yes! I was 5, I didnt get the significance of a moon landing. I think I was more surprised that we hadnt actually been there yet. I had seen bits of Star Trek, Lost in Space and Flash Gordon etc, I assumed it had well and truly been done and dusted.
I think it became more significant to me as I got older, and in 2019 with the 50th anniversary along with all the conspiracy people running around on teh webz Ive probably taken more interest in it than at any other time. I think its a pretty amazing feat.
Me I was 24 years old doing something IN NH most likely glued to the TV.
VP Pence just said on TV - They had 17 seconds of fuel left.
VP Pence just said on TV - They had 17 seconds of fuel left.
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