It was 38 years ago today...........

[Bruce R]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0720_050719_moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

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Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

[Bob Moore]

Bruce R wrote
> Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Yep! I was a member of one of the two PanAm B-707 crews laying-over
at a very small hotel in Prestwick, Scotland. The only TV was in the
also very small lobby, lounge and bar. The 80 year old bartender
became very upset when we kept him up until the early hours of the
morning waiting for Neil to exit the lander. A great time was had by
all...except the bartender.

Ask me where I was when Powers was shot down....yep, right there at
his point of intended landing in Norway. They woke us up, stuffed us
into our P-2V, and said to go anywhere but there. We didn't know what
had happened until reading the newspaper when we arrived in London a
few hours later.

Bob Moore

[TacAN]

Yes I remember it well - we didn't have a local tv transmitter at our town.
In fact we had no local transmitter intil late 1974.
We were over 200 miles from the nearest tx. It meant having an external
aerial placed about 20 or 30 feet or more high above the house plus a high
gain aerial plus (if you could afford the extra) and rf pre-amplifier.
The very few people that did have tv sets in our town had b&w (no colour tv
then) and relied on the occasional burst of good signal propogation to see
(maybe) 5 or 10 minutes of only just watchable picture. One of our local
petrol service stations had a tv set, and watch we did - through the most
horrible "snowy" picture we just caught a glimpse of that historic moment.
:-)

Graham
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I'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing.


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[Lonnie]

Summer camp. First time and only time in the campgrounds history that
campers were permitted to watch TV.

Chaplain (COL) Lonnie J. Potter
National Recruiting Coordinator
Headquarters (HQ) Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
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[- Lunacy -[_2_]]

no as I would of just turned 1


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[Dave Kearton]

Bruce R wrote:
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>> Bruce R
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Primary school, year 7. For us it was around midday, I got to stay
home for the landing and the "one small step..." but then had to go back
to school.


Must admit, one of the benefits of being middle-aged is that I was watching
moments like these - that to my kids are like ancient history.


Perversely, I'm much more moved by Apollo 8's Christmas Eve sojourn at the
back end of the moon. We were watching the telecast - more concerned
with the following morning and my father telling us "pay attention you
*******s, this is history happening"




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Cheers

Dave Kearton

[Jim Morris[_2_]]

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Quality assurance (control) rep VT-21 NAS Kingsville Tx.
Took the day off and talked to Lesperance on the phone as the stroll began.

vr,

jm

[TacAN]

What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
computers that they used.
In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
intergrated circuits.
By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
achievements all the more spectacular.

Graham
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I'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing.

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[Kevin M. Vernon]

"Bruce R" > wrote:

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>Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

In some motel room, somewhere in East Central Florida. Spent the
morning of the 16th in the Post Office parking lot in Titusville, 11
miles from the pad.

I was 8.

I remember all that like it happened yesterday.

All these years & we should have been cranking out Saturn V bossters
the way the Soviets have cranked out R-7's. Damnit.

-Kevin in Indy (Certified {or is that certifiable?} Space Cadet)
To reply, remove (+spamproof+) from address........

[The Old Bloke[_5_]]

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Sure do. I was at university and it was mid morning. Everyone stopped to
watch the telecast. Other "great" moments that have stayed in my mind are
the murder of JFK, 11th Sept, Boxing Day tsunami, Cyclone Tracy, and the day
the Queen's representative sacked the elected Australian goverment.

Doug

[Mitchell Holman[_2_]]

"Bruce R" > wrote in news:46a13b15$0$16596
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> Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??


Busy applying to colleges. Spend much of the
preceding years following all the launches and
spacewalks closely, sending off to NASA for all
the brochures and press releases. Living in Houston
at the time will do that to you, what with all the
hoopla over "Space City" and the "Astrodome" and
all that............

[Lonnie]

BTW, I was 12 when Neil took that "small step," and I was in 1st grade when
JFK was killed and 9/11 I was sitting in front of my television watching in
absolute shock.


--

Chaplain (COL) Lonnie J. Potter
National Recruiting Coordinator
Headquarters (HQ) Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
"Bob" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:52:21 -0400, "Bruce R" >
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>>Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??
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> Korat RTAFB, Thailand. F-4Es..
> The day JFK died - Glasgow AFB, Montana B-52Ds.

[Jon Brunker]

And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
government this country has ever seen!!!

[The Old Bloke[_5_]]

"Jon Brunker" > wrote in message
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> And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
> government this country has ever seen!!!
I agree, but it was a momentous day. I didn't think it could happen.

[Andrew-S]

I was 4 or 5 and I was dumbfounded to learn that space flight wasn't like it
was in the cartoons... I kept asking about the guns they carried, and if
the had rockets to defend themselves against the bad men in outerspace.
The place was my parents house at Driglington in Yorkshire, England.

Not long after that we moved to America and I remember crying my eyes out
that two of my best friends woudn't be joining us... My Dad's car (a Ford
Anglia) and my super sized teddy bear, (the damned thing would have needed
an extra seat on the plane) and the airline was BOAC.

Andrew

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[TacAN]

And those bitter and ominous words by Gough Whitlam etched into Australian
history ....

Well may we say "God Save The Queen. Because nothing will save the Governor
General"



Graham
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"The Old Bloke" > wrote in message
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>> And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
>> government this country has ever seen!!!
> I agree, but it was a momentous day. I didn't think it could happen.

[Dave Kearton]

TacAN wrote:
>> And those bitter and ominous words by Gough Whitlam etched into
>> Australian history ....
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>> Well may we say "God Save The Queen. Because nothing will save the
>> Governor General"
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"...from himself"




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>> Graham
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Cheers

Dave Kearton

[TacAN]

"Dave Kearton" > wrote in message
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> TacAN wrote:
>>> And those bitter and ominous words by Gough Whitlam etched into
>>> Australian history ....
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>>> Well may we say "God Save The Queen. Because nothing will save the
>>> Governor General"
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:-D true!!



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[Dallas[_2_]]

I was a very bleary eyed 9 year old who's mom was nice enough to let him
stay up late and see it live on tv....... :D

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[Chezelwig]

I was in summer school at college. I watched on someone's TV, but I was
so into my own little world that what was going on didn't quite click.

On 2007-07-21 06:22:08 -0500, "Dallas"
> said:

> I was a very bleary eyed 9 year old who's mom was nice enough to let him
> stay up late and see it live on tv....... :D
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>> Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??
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>> Bruce R
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>> Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

[Markus Baur[_2_]]

it is the earliest childhood memory that i can absolutely fix in space
and time (there are some earlier ones, but i am not entirely sure when
or where they took place)

sitting in the living room of my grand parents, with lots of
relatives, watching the b/w tv sitting on top of large cupboard at
some ungodly hourr ..

...................................

the following is stolen from some blog (Chaos Manor) but it fits my
feelings perfectly:

"Once we walked on the Moon. When I was in high school in the 1940's I
read science fiction and knew that I would live to see the first man
on the Moon. I did not know I would live to see the last one.

NASA ate the dream. It is not lack of money. It is NASA, turf wars,
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

We have spent enough since Apollo to be half way to Alpha Centauri. We
cannot even go back to the Moon."

servus

markus

[Shiver]

I was working as a control room operator at CKPR TV
in Thunder Bay Ontario while going to college and I
drew the short straw.

I got to stick around after the late nite movie watching
the Indian head test pattern until three AM when I switched
on the national feed and watched Neil take his walk.

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
"TacAN" > wrote:

> What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
> computers that they used.
> In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
> intergrated circuits.
> By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
> computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
> achievements all the more spectacular.
>
> Graham

I watched it on TV at a party set up especially for it -- in Huntsville,
AL, where I worked for Boeing, designing translunar flight trajectories.

I remember the JFK assassination, too. I was working for Douglas, in
Culver City, CA and worked with a Texan, whose thoughts were,
"Manchurian Candidate," where LBJ cradled JFK's mortally wounded head in
his lap.

[CWO4 Dave Mann]

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> In article >,
> "TacAN" > wrote:
>
>> What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
>> computers that they used.
>> In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
>> intergrated circuits.
>> By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
>> computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
>> achievements all the more spectacular.
>>
>> Graham
>
> I watched it on TV at a party set up especially for it -- in Huntsville,
> AL, where I worked for Boeing, designing translunar flight trajectories.
>
> I remember the JFK assassination, too. I was working for Douglas, in
> Culver City, CA and worked with a Texan, whose thoughts were,
> "Manchurian Candidate," where LBJ cradled JFK's mortally wounded head in
> his lap.


Interesting imagery ... as a comparison to the actual event where Jackie
went over the back of the limo to retrieve part of JFK's skull and
famous hairdo ... apropos the unknown worker/handler who cradled RFK's
head after Sirhan-x2 did his Dallas on him in LA. And where was the
Woman in the Polka Dotted Dress, anyway?

PS:

When the Moon Landing occurred, I was in Okinawa and we watched the TV
image from the Armed Forces TV but the audio came over a local Japanese
station -- there was a delay of some 15 seconds -- the audio feed being
by shortwave and the TV by Satellite. But it WAS something to see. I
never noticed that camera slip which revealed the propped up backdrop of
the movie set at Area 51 that was later edited out of all existent rerun
tapes.

Clever those Kennedy's.

Cheers from the Grassy Knoll

Dave

[KENG]

Bruce R wrote:
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Sittin in my brother's living room in Cocoa Beach, FL. My brother at the
time worked for a NASA contractor that produced the comm systems on the
Apollo program. Just a few days earlier I was standing beside the VAB
when it launched.
KenG

[Grumpy AuContraire[_2_]]

I was shooting a documentary in Palau...

JT




Bruce R wrote:
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[redc1c4]

Bruce R wrote:
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> Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??
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> Bruce R
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> Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

i was in and out of the family garage, where the better of the two TV's
was. i was there for the momentous occasion, and then after awhile,
i was in and out, asking if anything was happening. %-)

redc1c4,
we got a color TV just in time for the 72 Olympics... bad timing.
--
"Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear
considerable watching."

Army Officer's Guide

[Jim]

NAS Whiting Field.

[John[_8_]]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:52:21 -0400, "Bruce R" >
wrote:

>Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

We had a Zenith 25" B& W television that we got back around 1954 or
55. Parked myself in front of that set for the launch and most of the
significant events, including the walk. Managed to arrange my work
schedule around it all. Recorded the whole thing on the Norelco
cassette recorder I got a month or so before for a graduation gift.
Vividly remember the grainy, hard to make out in the shadows image of
Neil stepping down from that ladder and Walter Cronkite being moved to
tears as he watched it on his monitors.

I still have that tape and all the newspaper and magazine articles.
Later added some JFK recordings to it. Never had a thought of VCR's
and DVD's and all the archival stuff we have now. Back then I felt
that I needed to record as much as I could to pass it on to my kids
and grandkids, for "I was there" when history was made.

A few years later I watched a number of launches all the way up to
Apollo 17 while attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Daytona Beach. Unfortunately, all I had back then was a crappy Kodak
Instamatic camera! Oh! Would that I had my current Nikkon N-70 back
then!!!

BTW - that Zenith was still being used by my kids as a video game
center at my parents house until the mid 1980's. One of my brothers
had hooked his Atari to it. Many hours playing Pong on a very dim B&W
screen with my oldest daughter. Sure don't make them like that any
more!

J. W. Alger

[Clairbear]

"Bruce R" > wrote in news:46a13b15$0$16596
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> Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

Yeah I was in church In the town of Ewa Beach Hawaii when I first heard the
news and those famous words quoted by our preacher