Today is the 39th anniversary of the first Moon Landing-July 20, 1969

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Apollo 11 astronauts made history when the first man is landed on the moon by the United States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon leaving the first human footprints in its dusty soil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

I was in Colorado, in a small town and everyone including children went to the bar to watch
because they had the best reception. No cable back then.

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. alas

the sound stage in Van Nuys is gone otherwise I'd stop by and pay my respects.

[bbinacan]

2. You forgot the sarcasm smilie. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. My mother subscribes to that theory

[TZ]

4. I was exactly a month old

I have lots of moon landing commemorbilia in a lock box somewhere.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Project Apollo -- launched by Kennedy, funded by Johnson ...

cut short by Nixon.

After he made that image-boosting phone call, he decided the rest of the money would be better spent bombing Cambodia. (Oops, I meant North Vietnam -- don't tell Congress, they don't know about it.)