Where were you during the Moon Walk, besides glued to a T-V?

[L. Coyote]

Moments us Boomers and Older are likely to never forget was when the first person set foot on the moon and the assassinations.

Where were you when we landed a person on the moon? Where did you first see the landing?

I was under the arcade in Toluca, Mexico, watching through a store window with a big crowd of people.
At the time I was in a language school, and we did not have televisions in our rooms.
Several students and a lot of Tolucans watched on a batch of T-Vs.
They probably sold a lot of televisions around the world that week.

[MichiganVote]

1. School.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. OK, raise hands who thought for a moment this was a MJ thread. -nt

[parasim]

5. (raises hand sheepishly)

:)

[shadowknows69]

6. I must admit. That's how bad The late KOP has infected my brain and this board.

[madeline_con]

52. Back here, too.

(I always sit in the back.)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

56. That'd be me

:)

Doesn't help that I'm listening to a Michael Jackson CD right now

[parasim]

3. Just sitting in front of tv watching the Motown 25 year anniversary special and then there it was...

hee hee!

[targetpractice]

4. I was 4 years old living in Delaware...

...My parents woke me up and made me watch the TV coverage. They told me that I should try to always remember that night because it was history in the making. I never forgot, and it began my love affair with all things space and science-fiction.

I tried to convince my sister to wake up my 5-year old nephew the night Obama was elected, but she did not. I'm sure he would have remembered the event like I remembered the moon landing.

[proud patriot]

7. in my moms arms

for most that may not seem special but
After 4 years olds I really didn't have a mom
until I was 17 or so

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. At the sports center in Mexico City on my dad's shoulders

one of my first memories actually

yes, I was that young... three and a half years old

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I was in my parents' room...the only one in the house with air conditioning

And I remember being really tired; but wanting to stay up anyway.

[shadowknows69]

10. I wish I'd been born a few months later and I could have said:

"I was in a womb somewhere", which would have been a pretty good joke in my opinion. As it was I was in a crib somewhere. February 1969 represent!!!

[targetpractice]

17. self-delete

oops

[Fumesucker]

11. My mom was an antique dealer, we were on our way to a show..

We pulled off the highway and watched the landing in the lobby of a motel, a Holiday Inn I think it was, they had a TV set up there and a bunch of people were watching it.

We had been monitoring it on the radio to know when to watch.

[MarjorieG]

12. Married a month, watching TV in Miami-Dade, when all things seemed possible.

[timeforpeace]

13. I was on the set as it was being filmed in Arizona.

[Flabbergasted]

20. Liar...

Everyone knows it was filmed in New Mexico...

[L. Coyote]

23. No, that's where the aliens landed.

Err, crashed!

[Critters2]

22. LOL! nt

[SeattleGirl]

14. Staying with my grandparents for the summer. I was sitting on the floor

right in front of the TV, absolutely glued to it.

It was an amazing day.

[Sinistrous]

15. My wife and I were watching at our next-door neighbors

on an Air Force station in Alaska.

[Sebastian Doyle]

24. Could you see Russia from there?

I heard ya can, you betcha!

[kestrel91316]

16. My dad had gone to Vietnam (USAF) and we lived with my grandparents

in CO that year. We all (grandparents, mom, sister and me) sat in the living room watching that grainy, staticky transmission (you had to take their word for it what was said and what the picture showed) on a big console black & white TV. What a thrill!

[targetpractice]

18. Here's a timeline of Apollo 11 events to jog your memory...

So, I guess they only "moonwalked" a couple of hours...

Here is the Apollo 11 mission timeline:

Liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida:
Wednesday, July 16, 1969, 8:32:00 a.m. EST

Lunar Module touches down on the Moon:
Sunday, July 20, 1969, 3:17:40 p.m. EST

Neil Armstrong begins extravehicular activity
(exits Lunar Module and begins slow climb down ladder):
Sunday, July 20, 1969, 9:39:33 p.m. EST

Neil Armstrong steps down on lunar surface:
Sunday, July 20, 1969, 9:56:15 p.m. EST

End of lunar extravehicular activity (Moon walk):
Monday, July 21, 1969, 12:11:13 a.m. EST

Apollo 11 Command Module splashes down in Pacific Ocean:
July 24, 1969, 11:50:53 a.m. EST

[applegrove]

19. I was watching on our TV at home. Someone made a comment about one of the astronauts

loosing their toothbrush in space.

[Critters2]

21. Camp Ses-ko-Me. Just getting settled in, seeing my folks off.

Heading back to the cabin with some friends, we heard this cheer go up from the staff cabin, and went over to see what was going on. I remember being amazed to discover there was a TV at camp!

[imdjh]

25. I guess I just lack enthusiasm.

I didn't get excited by the moon landing. I was a sci-fi head from the cradle, and by the time the moon landing took place, I had already seen one spectacular UFO. So my response was pretty much , "Big deal." ''

I also didn't get warped out of shape when the shuttle exploded, some people were really upset and I still don't know why. To me, it seemed like something we would expect to happen eventually.

Call me when the Vulcans let us know that they are here.

[Control-Z]

29. I am sad for you.

Your life must be so very disappointing.

I was just a kid at my babysitters house, but still knew the significance of the moon landing and walk, and I felt the excitement.

I was devastated to see the shuttle explode on television. The young school teacher who became a part of the crew really made an impression on me. I remember her interviews, and how brave I thought she was. I so hoped that all would go well for her, and that the experience would be everything she had dreamed of and worked for. I privately imagined a possible disaster, and worried about her safety. It was difficult for me to witness.

'some people were really upset and I still don't know why'

Because fellow human beings, with families and loved ones, lost their lives that day. Is that really so hard to understand?

[imdjh]

41. People die every day.

If you invested your feelings in the shuttle crew, that's fine. I didn't say you were an idiot for doing so, I simply said that I didn't get it.

I didn't invest my "national hopes and dreams" in the space program. I've also never been particularly interested in or thrilled vicariously by people climbing Mt Everest. And when people die doing these things, I see it like hang gliding or skydiving accidents: unfortunate. My empathy kicks in when people drown on their way home from work, not when an adventure goes wrong.

[Berry Cool]

42. That's too bad. I guess you have no empathy for people who die taking risks

to do great things. Pity.

It's one thing to lack empathy for people who die doing foolish stuff that doesn't advance the human race any and doesn't represent any real kind of personal achievement, but to lack it for people who try something great and die in the attempt...whether you "invested your national hopes and dreams" in it or not...

[yodoobo]

47. Sorry to hear that.

How mundane it must be the have life's joys and sorrows muted.

[quiller4]

26. I wasn't anywhere near a TV set. I was a sumer camp counselor

and my cabin didn't have electricity. I listened on a transistor radio.

[sueh]

27. At Broken Arrow Campground in Winemac, Indiana...

We had 4 families in our neighborhood who used to go camping together. I remember my dad wanted to break up camp early so we'd get home in time to watch the TV coverage. The neighbor who brought his portable black & white set convinced him to stay.

Greetings people of Winemac. :hi:

[frazzled]

28. Sitting by myself in a tiny apartment on W. 23rd Street in New York

I remember watching it on a TV left behind in the apt. I was subletting for the summer while I was working after my freshman year at college. I recall being sweltering hot and transfixed. But even more, I remember that it was just around that time that a friend asked if I wanted to go with her and some friends to a music festival somewhere outside the city in a place called Woodstock. I said no thanks, and stayed behind in the sweltering hot little apartment. Damn. I will forever connect those two things in my mind.

Peace.

[Doc_Technical]

30. I was at work at a steakhouse.

I was a cook and there were maybe four
customers in the place.
It was years later when I saw the films.

[ejpoeta]

31. i wasn't even a twinkle in my father's eye yet. i wasn't born until 1972

[masuki bance]

32. That was one of the best Grammy's ever. nt

[ThomWV]

33. Sitting in a bar in Colorado Springs drinking a beer

[tomg]

34. I was at my friend's house

and we had just gotten really high and then we went downstairs to watch it with his parents.

[tomg]

35. I was at my friends house

in New Jersey. We had just gotten quite high ( first time I used a water pipe), and then we went downstairs to watch it with his parents.

[era veteran]

36. General Butler State Park Carrolton KY

We were at band camp . A couple of friends and I snuck off to the Lodge and watched it on a lobby TV. If not we would have missed it.

[Homer Wells]

37. Can Tho, VietNam.

Working the overnight shift in the company's Commo Shack on the airfield.
Another aviation company had a TV showing the landing coverage
on AFVN (Armed Forces Viet Nam) network. It was an exciting night!!

[Faygo Kid]

45. Thanks for your service.

My draft number (1970) was 247. I didn't have to go.

Thank you for serving in that very bad war.

[Faygo Kid]

46. Stockboy, Federal's Department Store, Detroit.

Watched it on multiple TVs in that section of the store.

Along with all the other employees. A shoplifter could have had a field day.

[TahitiNut]

50. In Ferndale?

I remember Federal's. :hi:

[Faygo Kid]

51. Nope. Just south of Seven Mile, on Gratiot in Detroit.

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

[Thothmes]

38. Boot Camp at the Navy Recruit Training Center

in San Diego. The only day they allowed us to turn on the TV in the barracks.

[B Calm]

39. I was in the US Navy on the Greek island of Corfu.

I remember getting into an argument with a cab driver who thought it was all a Hollywood movie prop.

[Vinca]

40. I was working in a psychiatric hospital as an aide and watched

the landing with a group of elderly patients in one of the solariums.

[ourbluenation]

43. laying on the carpet, asleep, in front of the tv.

I was about 4 years old. My mom snapped a photo of the tv documenting the event, and there's me snoozing through the whole thing.

[gauguin57]

44. I was watching it with my parents in our family room. I was wearing yellow summer pajamas.

And we oohed and aahed with amazement.

[Hutzpa]

48. Still swinging

between my fathers legs.... :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

49. Since I was in Viet Nam, and didn't have access to a TV, I had to wait ...

... until the next year to actually 'watch' it, as I recall. We heard it, of course.

[ThomWV]

53. I hit it lucky, they landed between tours

I was stationed at Fort Carson for a couple of months inbetween tour 2 and 3, that's the only reason I got to see it. As far as I know there wasn't a TV station in the Central Highlands, let alone a set.

[thistooshalllpass]

54. Geez...I was a toddler then, so I have no idea, although

I have a hazy memory of a humid July night and the old black and white tv on while it all played out...

[DavidDvorkin]

55. At NASA in Houston

Posted about it on my blog: http://eyeblister.blogspot.com

[L. Coyote]

59. Thanks for the link. n/t

[defendandprotect]

57. At 34th Street, in a car, near Macy's coming home from the beach . . .

when we first hear "landed" --

However . . . over time I've questioned it --

And 40 years since we've been back -- and no other nation has ever claimed

to have put anyone on the moon? Are we to think no other nation could

accomplish what we did? Especially when the Russians were 12 years ahead

of us with space exploration and Sputnik?

:shrug: :)

[Evoman]

58. Swimming around in my dad's nutsack.

[brooklynite]

60. Asleep...

On the east coast, it was the middle of the night.

[Arrowhead2k1]

61. An egg waiting patiently in my mother's ovaries at nursing school in Newfoundland.

[graywarrior]

62. I thought this was about Michael Jackson

[MikeH]

63. In summer school at college

I was in summer school at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois at the time of the first moonwalk. This was between my freshman and sophomore years at college, and I was taking a couple of classes, and living in the dorm (my parents were living in Michigan at the time).

I made the comment that it was out of this world.

[HOLOS]

64. yes!