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
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
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 . . .
Mayport Florida Navy Base...Watched in Damage Control Central on board ship...
I can’t say for certain, but I most likely pooped in a diaper that day.
A while back at an estate sale, I purchased a few reels of audio tape on which someone had recorded the entire Apollo 11 mission from launch to post recovery celebrations. He recorded the event off a TV, as Walter Cronkite was there for much of it.
I listened to portions of it, it was fascinating to hear again.
I consider the efforts as one of America’s finest hours. The original Mission Control room in NASA for me is somewhat hallowed ground.
I was almost 8 (in three days) when they landed on the moon. I remember watching on TV (outside antenna, no one had heard of cable) with my brother and sister and mother. I had two other brothers at the time but they were both so young that they couldn’t remember.
I remember running outside and back in to watch the TV. I could see the moon.
14 years old. Listened on the radio.
What a great day in history.
I was bound and determined to stay up and watch it, whatever my parents said.
What a shock I had when they DEMANDED we stay up and watch it.
We weren’t allowed to miss it. They said it was history in the making and we could not miss something as significant as that.
They were right.