37 Years Ago today

[BOSSHOG]

Neil Armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind as the first man to walk on the moon.

[Minnesota Libra]

1. OMG, that long ago??? that was quite a moment. nt

[jaysunb]

2. I remember that !

Sipping a Rolling Rock and wondering if my Uncle was right that they were just out in Arizona, cause God would never let man do that.....:evilgrin:

[Totally Committed]

3. And yesterday, that one small step for mankind was

left alone in the annals of scientic courageousness, awash in a sea of nothing more than single-cell DNA material, now considered "human beings". The irony is stunning.

TC

[snappyturtle]

4. We've come so far.....

haven't we? :sarcasm:

[underpants]

5. Really? Wow I've seen no mention of it anywhere until now

That is amazing.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Hey you know

I'm on the cutting edge of calendar annotations. My wife says its anal something or other.

[Ron Green]

6. As the moon landing was happening, I tuned in to the notorious Channel 11

in the Dallas-Ft Worth market to see what they were broadcasting, and was reassured to see Roller Derby.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. I was at a sleepaway camp at the time. . .

and while normally we had no TV anywhere in the camp, for this moment, the camp staff got ahold of a large TV and hooked it up in the assembly barn just above the messhall. Our cheers when 1) the Eagle landed and when 2) Armstrong and Aldrin stepped down practically blew the roof off.

:party::patriot:

[BOSSHOG]

9. How large

wads a large TV in 1969?

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Probably 30 inches, I don't recall.

There was come kind of contraption where we could see it on a roll-down movie screen.
At any rate, the sound was turned up so that everybody could hear, if not all could see completely.

:shrug:

[HamdenRice]

11. Were we at the same camp??? See my post below! nt

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Sorry, but my camp was in upstate New York.

n/t

[HamdenRice]

10. I was in Bible camp! They woke us up to see it

This really brings back memories. I was in Bible camp in Pennsylvania. The kids were a mix of African American kids from Brooklyn and Queens, and white kids from Pennsylvania. The counselors were a strange mix: well meaning, middle class white girls who in retrospect seem to have been Philadelphia main line girls who were doing this work as preparation for the Peace Corp (we sang "Kumbaya My Lord, Kumbaya," "Michael Rowed his Boat Ashore," and "If I had a Hammer," way too many times with them) and rural Pennsylvania Dutch and Mennonite boys gone bad. Imagine learning how to smoke cigarettes behind the barracks with bad Amish boys! They also tried to demonstrate what a bull whip was for, with very bad results.

At any rate, they woke us up in the middle of the night to gather in the dining hall to watch man land on the moon.

That was when Christian fundamentalists were mostly liberal, very convinced in the message of the recently deceased Martin Luther King. Also they were not at all anti-science -- hence, the urgency of waking us up to see the moon landing.

[darkmaestro019]

12. I didn't know that.

I mean, I know about that, but the date, not so much. I'm terrible at linear time!

Thank you so much. For that, I simply MUST acquire a beer. (Don't yell at me. I work nights. It IS night for me, heh)

Any argument about who is and isn't a hero with me INEVITABLY comes to our astronauts--they are heroes, every one. I firmly believe the real future of humankind depends upon our colonizing space, and these first pioneers have unbelievable courage.

Read a bit about the theories of what MIGHT happen in space--before anyone knew--that they knew and agreed to go anyway! Fried in space from radiation.......sinking into the surface of the Moon to disappear-pouff!--in a cloud of dust miles deep.

They went anyway. For all of us. Boldly go.

(sigh, so fkin proud) (salute)

[BOSSHOG]

14. A good read

"Moondust" by Andrew Smith. He interviews all of the astronauts who walked on the moon (cept the two dead ones.) He wanted to capture their thoughts in one book before they are all gone. He really tapped into their personalities and quirks. I'm going to Stennis Space Ctr tonight to eat a steak out in the Piney Woods. I think I'll drink a beer to the boys this evening. You are right the Gemini and Apollo boys certainly are heroes. I recall one of them saying in the book that if we deferred to safety, we would have never gotten to the moon. Wow, that was heroic!

[tinfoil tiaras]

15. My mom had a "moon box"

Where she put articles and such about the moon landing and such....:rofl:

[MuseRider]

16. KU music camp.

We all gathered in the commons where we watched it on the one TV that was there. It was so exciting then, still is.

Thanks for the reminder A smile for when America seemed a lot closer to what it is meant to be than it does now. :)

[bdamomma]

17. I sat in front of TV in awe to see that

that was an accomplishment a country that could anything, now we are country who do nothing but invade other countries.:cry:

[htuttle]

19. I saw it on a little black and white TV at my neighbor's house

We were outside playing in the yard (I was 6 years old), and my neighbor's father shouted that we would want to come inside and watch something. At the time, I wasn't that impressed. It was hard to see much, and I wasn't sure what it meant for someone to be 'on the moon'.

But to this day, I'm grateful he took the time to call us inside to see it. The significance of the event didn't really hit me until years later.

[Bandit]

20. I was in Vietnam then

One great leap for mankind as we continued killing each other. Didn't leap very damn far did we?

[brer cat]

21. I was nearly 9 months preggie and...

my best friend was delivering her son at a DC hospital. We were going on a picnic that day, but canceled because of her delivery. My then husband and I sat and ate the fried chicken, potato salad and brownies I had fixed for the next two days.

[deaniac21]

22. I wonder if that soundstage in Area 51 still stands?