One small step ...

[Serge]

for personkind :lol: today 35 years ago!
O.K. so did they really go, or was it all in a studio ala "Capricorn One"
Melody, any clues :D just kiding, don't really care anymore, political correctness certainly wasn't around then :beerchug:

But all this talk on Beatlemania elsewhere today, reminded me of the summer of 68 in December, I was camping in the bush with friends, and I can clearly remember listening to, and singing, Hey Jude, as we scanned in awe at the southern skies where the astronauts where orbiting in Apollo 9(?), only several months before the main event. Then in July '69, I was in my first real full time job after leaving school, and we all stopped to watch a small B/W tv set.
Do you remember where you were?
Solana (and maybe others) need not answer :D


oooops, I stand corrected, thanks Brian :righton:
see what age does Solana, looks like you get a chance after all :)

[sandman]

I know time passes quickly down under , but it was 35 yrs ago .
I'm trying to remember ,but i just can't .
I can remember exactly where i was and what i was doing when
Elvis died
Kennedy was assainated.
Princess Dianna died .
But although i remember watching it on a black and white T.V in my first home . (1968 was the year i got married.) it did'nt mean much to me at the time .
I wonder what Michael Moore would think about ''Capricorn 1'' If he had been around at the time.

Brian

[JPS]

Ouch !!! I'm afraid I can almost remember anything "clearly" from this period, as I was too much into heavy clouds of "grass" smoke and beer :throwup: !
Fortunatly, I gave up "grass" -and much more- a long time ago, but I still enjoy good wine, beer, vodka/gin-tonic, scotch, etc... ! :guzzle: ...I'm afraid I definitly never will be "politically correct" ! :p
:cheers:

[Linda G]

I remember! I was at a dance and had PAID to get in, listen to the band and hopefully have fun DANCING. Not to be. The adults who were working the dance had everyone stop so they could hear the small b&w tv they'd brought in so we all went for a drive. We couldn't see, we figured we would see it on reruns and good grief, it was Saturday Night!!!!

Well, I DID see it on reruns, MANY times and now that I'm a bit older the magnitude is a little more awe inspiring. (didn't mind class stopping when John Glenn circled the earth, either but it was no less boring. to a grade schooler)

[jhawk1000]

Aha---as we lawyers like to say, "an admission against interests." Linda has always told ME that she NEVER paid to get into dances and that a dark, handsome guy always had her on his arm. Now we get the rest of the story!

I was in banking when this event occurred, had been having a relaxing day and watched the live coverage at home on a fairly new color tv even though it was black and white. My kids, one age 5 and another just 3 months were long gone to sleep and I recall being choked up by the maginitude of the event. My father and I used to lay on a blanket in our front yard and look at the sky and he would tell me, "one day we will be there and it will be a wonderful thing in my life." He did not make it to see this event having died at a very young age of 49 a few years before. I thought then as I do now about how much wonderment my father would have felt.

Mel

[Melody]

[QUOTE=Serge]for personkind :lol: today 35 years ago!
O.K. so did they really go, or was it all in a studio ala "Capricorn One"
Melody, any clues :D just kiding, don't really care anymore, political correctness certainly wasn't around then :beerchug:

QUOTE]

Thanks Serger now I feel old since I can remember!! :rofl:

I didn't realize it was 35 yrs ago if so I was 8yrs old, and in the library at elementary school watching t.v. thinking get out of class was really great! :)


Melody

[HulaMike]

I got kicked out of a big high school dance in 1964 for borrowing 10 class rings and pretending to be Ringo as they played, "I wanna hold your hand". Pretty tame by today's 'musical' standards. Flower Power and the summer of love were still a few years away as was the Moon landing.

I was a junior in college and remember watching Walter Cronkite narrate all night on tv. Most inspiring and wonderous. And pa-lease, for all the conspiracy buffs out there, it really happened. No way that 1969 broadcast technology could fake it so well, or so I believe. Serge would know better about this.

[Snitzlefritz]

I remember it very distinctly. I had followed the space program since I was a wee pup (even did a countdown instead of a prayer without realizing it! ;) )
So when it came time to step on the moon, I was very excited! :eek:
The only trouble was that I was working at Dairy Queen. (We had a black and white TV set up in back}. Just as he was stepping down some came in for ice cream. I asked the customer why he wasn't watching the moon shot and he said, "what moon shot?" :( One of the most incredible accomplishments for personkind as Serge described it--something we have wanted to do since the dawn of time and he is oblivious to it even happening :stupid: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[S_Leeper]

I think I was getting some ice cream at the local dairy queen that day after walking through a cloud of smoke (without inhaling--of course).

[Swampy]

I don't remember it at all. But then again, with a boob in your mouth, what else would I remember? Ok. So I don't remember that either, but hey, gimme a break, I was only 1 1/2, so was I still breast feeding? I dunno that either. Regardless of what I was doing or how old I was, it was still very awe inspiring to see that later in life in grade school and over and over throughout my life, even seeing it again this morning on the news.

Now, I wish people could get it straight. The news said this morning that today was the day. The post is says "today" on the 19th. CNN said July 20 as well. So, is Serge wrong? Is Linda wrong with her dancemate on a Saturday night's recollection?

Which is the right date? Saturday the 19th or Sunday the 20th?

(this is meant more as a humourous post and my intentions are not to offend anyone with the boob comment being taken slightly out of context from breast feeding)

:)

[HulaMike]

probably both. I think Serge is on the other side of the Int'l date line.

[Swampy]

But he would be AHEAD of us. Which would make that the 21st/Monday, right? :D

[HulaMike]

got me big fella. I can never keep it straight even though I've done the cross over many times. It would have been a day earlier.

[Melody]

Well then I don't remember where i was if it was on a sat or sun all I remember is being little and watching something on t.v. at school who knows what that was something about the moon and men there! LOL!

I hope there are no questions about what happened last week that's even harder for me to recall! :rofl:

Melody

[Linda G]

it could have been one of many events....the landing, the walk, who knows? Check a calendar and you find July 19, 1969 was a Saturday. Will have to research farther to see what they did when.

[Linda G]

he spacecraft entered lunar orbit at 1:28 p.m. EDT on July 19. During the second lunar orbit a live color telecast of the lunar surface was made. A second service-propulsion-system burn placed the spacecraft in a circularized orbit, after which astronaut Aldrin entered the LM for two hours of housekeeping including a voice and telemetry test and an oxygen-purge-system check.

At 8:50 a.m. July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin reentered the LM and checked out all systems. They performed a maneuver at 1:11 p.m. to separate the LM from the CSM and began the descent to the moon. The LM touched down on the moon at 4:18 p.m. EDT July 20. Armstrong reported to mission control at MSC, "Houston, Tranquillity Base here - the Eagle< has landed." (Eagle was the name given to the Apollo 11 LM; the CSM was named Columbia.) Man's first step on the moon was taken by Armstrong at 10:56 p.m. EDT. As he stepped onto the surface of the moon, Armstrong described the feat as "one small step for a man - one giant leap for mankind."



found this here (http://sageman.freeservers.com/armstrong/apollo/apollo.html)

And I remember (please forgive me, it was a LONG time ago!) the dances for us too-young-to-drink-and-make-money-frommers were held on Sunday night.

[Serge]

But he would be AHEAD of us. Which would make that the 21st/Monday, right? :D


when I posted it late yesterday afternoon, it was the 20th here, yoy were on the 19th going into the 20th;
simultaneous event, at different times, just like the real event,
we live in interesting times (zones) :D

and nothing wrong with a bit of mother's breastmilk in my book :beerchug:

[Swampy]

Ok Serge, then you were still a day early. 10:56pm, July 20 would be 12:56pm, July 21 for you, according to my world time program. :)

[Serge]

Ok Serge, then you were still a day early. 10:56pm, July 20 would be 12:56pm, July 21 for you, according to my world time program. :)


eh, whatever :D
all I know is that it's still the 21st here right now :beerchug:

[rbeckerelite]

I was 10 at the time and my sister yelled out to me as I was playing outside that a man had just walked on the moon. My friends and I looked up at the moon and thought, "cool" and went back to playing (Batman I think....)