Posted on 07/20/2021 4:48:29 PM PDT by PROCON
July 1969. It's a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out.
It is only seven months since NASA's made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket.
Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history.
At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the engines fire and Apollo 11 clears the tower. About 12 minutes later, the crew is in Earth orbit.
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When the lunar module lands at 4:17 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain. Armstrong radios "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupts in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again."
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My Dad came down and sitting in a cafeteria, we listened to the mission on a transistor radio.
What were your memories of this incredible AMERICAN moon landing?
14 y/o, Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho (back when that was an event to be proud of). Listened on the radio.
I was in Danang at Camp Tien Sha awaiting my flight home in a couple of days. I watched Neil set foot on the moon via a 12” Black and White TV in the barracks common room.
My favorite Apollo 11 tribute video (2019)
https://youtu.be/M5m_AghHhDQ
What an amazing memory. Thank you for your service.
I was in our living room holding aluminum foil on the rabbit ears so we could get a good enough picture on the little B/W TV we had.
Not a memory here but a statement.
We were the one country in history as of 1969 that was not imperialistic and totalitarian.
If China ——today——had been first on the Moon, they would have said “This territory is now and forever a possession of China and we will defend this claim to the death.”
Iran? Russia? North Korea?
Only we came in peace for all mankind.
Probably the most important thing I ever witnessed.
Hung on each of Uncle Walter’s words...Walter Cronkite...from the Mercury program thru the culmination at the moon landing. For all his other faults, Cronkite loved the space program.
Anyway, it was a thrilling event.
So long ago.
I was in Basic Training at the Air Force Academy, and we hadn’t heard a radio, watched TV, or seen a newspaper since mid-June. Then, in the evening of June 20 my squadron was herded down to the TV room in the dorm where we were allowed to watch the landing.
I was 11 years old at Bat Day in Yankee Stadium. I believe I got a Jake Gibbs bat. We all raised them at 4:20 p.m. when the Eagle landed. Later, of course, I watched Armstrong and Aldrin leave the LEM and walk on the Moon.
I was in Ocean City - watching from a hotel room
“My favorite Apollo 11 tribute video (2019)”
And my favorite astronaut tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Amazing memory.....and, yes, thank you very much, for your service.
LOL, are you just showing the conspiracy side or do you actually believe this nonsense?
Only we came in peace for all mankind.
Amen.
Did something happen that day? I remember meeting Bob Hope at the Springfield, Illinois airport. Oh yeah, seems like he did mention something about something . . .
Dah, geez!
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