We Came In Peace For All Mankind

[filkertom]

Thirty-five years ago today, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Relive those thrilling days of yesteryear at The Project Apollo Archive. (Thanks to Steve Jackson's Daily Illuminator for the link.)

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[thepiercedrose.livejournal.com]

Thirty-five years ago today I still wouldn't be born for another 5 months and 7 days.

(at least there's something around here that can make me feel young)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

It's just wrong that you have to be an old coot like me to remember people walking on the moon.

(OK, 44 isn't *that* old, but still)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'm there, dude. :-7

[thepiercedrose.livejournal.com]

You're not that old. I'm just appreciating not feeling old for a couple minutes. I'll be ancient again very shortly.

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

I remember watching it....

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

My family was walking back to the car, having spent an excellent day at the Detroit Zoo, and we passed by a storefront with a TV in the window, and they were showing the LEM on the lunar surface with the screen flashing "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED". I couldn't have been more jacked if I'd had an IV of Chocolate Frosted Honey Bombs.

[specificocean.livejournal.com]

I was half asleep right before it happened....but I woke right up!

I was in an apartment (an upstairs apt, so it was REALLY hot)...there were about 8 of us crowded near a small TV...

[armb.livejournal.com]

Or, as The Onion put it Holy Shit, Man Walks on Fucking Moon (http://www.theonion.com/history/index.php?issue=4028).

[batyatoon]

My all-time favorite Onion cover story.

*happysigh*

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

BTW, Costco sells a three DVD set of all the vido and film footage. Well worth the $28 it costs.

you can all hate me now...(ramble)

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

I get to go to the anniversary celebration at air & space tonight.

That's the benefit of being a badged employee of NASA - even if it is only a temp job. <G> Hey Tom - want an anniversary sticker?

On the actual day, I was 5 years old & I remember watching it on my grandparents' new color tv. Pretty gold foil!

It's also my dad's Birthday. He's 66 today, IIRC.

My husband's father worked on the LEM - he was a troubleshooter @ Grumman. My _husband_ was in gestation at the time (born in jan '70) He's the one who studied to be a rocket scientist & I'm the one who works at NASA. <cue alanis!>

Re: you can all hate me now...(ramble)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hey Tom - want an anniversary sticker?

HELL yeah! :) Thanks! And Happy Birthday to your Dad, too!

Re: you can all hate me now...(ramble)

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

send a snail mail addy to lady_aylinn at yahoo.

I'll see what else I can lay my hands on. I've got the stickers.

The pin is $3.00 at the exchange, here.

Re: you can all hate me now...(ramble)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Sent it. Thanks so much!

Re: you can all hate me now...(ramble)

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

received & replied.

[poltr1]

As I first told dagonell, I was at home, watching the tube (black-and-white; we didn't get a color TV until '72) and eating birthday cake. (It was cherry chip cake, if I remember correctly.) I can't remember the channel or network; it was probably CBS since I vaguely remember Walter Cronkite narrating or doing the commentary. But all three networks were covering it.