July 20, 1969

[Jaybeaux]

As a pie-eyed, almost 7 year old, I watched with great attention the journey of Apollo 11 as they landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong made his historic walk. It's hard to believe that was 52 years ago! A fantastic accomplishment for the people of NASA and for people all over the world.

 

[Pirate Lady]

It was faked! “Ducking quickly, avoiding bullets” i saw the movie that said so. I think OJ was in it.

 

[ZZ13]

I was 11. I grew up in Huntsville, AL. Several of my friends were children of Von Braun’s team that he brought with him. My dad, and many of my friends parents, worked for IBM which was designing and building the Saturn V Instrument Unit. The Gemini and Apollo space programs were our lives back then. It was so long ago but I still remember much of it.

 

[Creekwood]

I remember it too. I was 6. My baby sister was born about 2 weeks earlier. We lived in the middle of the Yukon at a mining camp and there were dangerous forest fires all around due to a hot dry summer, even in the Yukon, so my parents kept us close to the house. No fun for a young kid used to running around the bush near the camp.

In those days the only TV available in the Yukon was an evening short window of black and white TV rebroadcast from a signal one of the Anik satellites Telesat Canada had above Northern Canada in those years. It was in range only in evenings for some reason. In any event we only got a few hours and one channel. Watched the news about it. Our actual TV signal to the Yukon was about as good as theirs was from the moon to earth. In those days that was really out of this world stuff, literally.

Think how much the world has changed and how much we take for granted.

 

[Pirate Lady]

My god. I was 16, sister was 14. We were leaving Ohio next day to go on vacation to Cape Cod. Parents and their friends stayed up all night watching on tv, we slept. Middle of night we headed east. 1965 Buick Wildcat, red, black convertible. Parents slept in back seats while me, just got my driver’s license drove and 14yo sis road shotgun all the way to Massachusetts.
Good Times!

 

[Mikemapva]

I remember it well as an almost 9 year old living on a US military base in Germany. It was the middle of the night when my parents woke my brother and I up and marched us across the hall to our neighbor's apartment to watch it. They had a better TV than us, and my Dad wanted us to remember it, so brought us over there.

 

[ttmott]

I remember sitting on the floor at my parents feet watching that event; pie-eyed is is an understatement. I think it was Walter Cronkite narrating right?
I still pinch myself as a career sitting at the Shuttle launch consoles in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space center (the same rooms that the Apollo missions were launch from) and being a part of the launch team for a good number of Shuttle missions then my 31 years with Lockheed Martin giving me incredible opportunities in many advanced spaceflight programs. And, now post retirement, owning a company that continues new launch systems development. It all started with that pie-eyed amazement in 1969.

 

[Gofirstclass]

I was 23 and in the USAF stationed in Biloxi, MS. What an exciting time that was.

Now we have people going into space on a joyride. What an exciting time this is.

 

[Nater Potater]

Six years old. Completely blanked out anything else around me.

 

[ErikE]

I am certainly in a younger generation. My significant space event when a kid was the Challenger disaster. Very crazy.

 

[Blueone]

I was 8…. Can remember that time vividly ….we were at my grandmas… sitting on the floor in front of the tv. Amazing stuff back then

nice avatar….teak on both levels…. Now you are just showing off….when do we get pics of the boat ..

 

[Jaybeaux]

Having our first "night on the hook"....I'll grab some in water pics in the morning when I take the dog to shore for a squirt. Thanks for the compliments. The Admiral is over the moon! We anchored out with about 8 boats today and all she did was give tours.

 

[Blueone]

So we get pee pics ?

 

[Nater Potater]

So we get pee pics ?

Bond already beat you to it.

 

[Four Suns]

I was 7. I went on to work for NASA Langley for 14 years as a research scientist probably because of this.

It was all fake. Like COVID.

 

[Blueone]

It was all fake..

My grandfather told me it was all fake…. An incredible man but could not get his head around going to the moon…. I respect that

 

[Fill Ess]

I am certainly in a younger generation. My significant space event when a kid was the Challenger disaster. Very crazy.

Same here. I can remember them wheeling in TVs on carts into the classroom since some of the teachers knew Christa Mcauliffe.

 

[carterchapman]

I was an Ensign in the Navy in Flight Training in Pensacola. We were all very proud of our country. Two years later, one of my squadron mates was Mike Smith who went on to be Challenger's Pilot in 1986. I was there and witness his fatal launch.