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Where were you during the moon landing???

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Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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Waiting in the waiting room to exist, twiddling my thumbs.
 
As a 12 year old Republican I was glued to the tv waiting for Nixon to speak with the astronauts.
 
I don’t remember this one. I do remember that our third grade class watched either the Alan Shepard or the John Glenn launch on a grainy b&w tv during class. I was probably high for the Apollo 11 landing.
 
I wasn't alive but my dad says it was a huge deal. He would have been about 16 at the time. He's told me about how big of a deal it was.
 
I was a toddler. Like 2 years old. I was probably wreaking havoc on my mother's nerves, and not allowing her to watch the moon landing.
 
Superfly said:
I was a toddler. Like 2 years old. I was probably wreaking havoc on my mother's nerves, and not allowing her to watch the moon landing.
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"Got your lunar module right here, ma."
 
I was sitting in my living room , watching it.
 
Superfly said:
She might have whacked me with my pink plastic guitar. :lol:
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Toddlers have diapers, no? I dunno about age 2, but not far from it I'd guess.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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Sixth grade!

It was supposed to be summer vacation but the school district decided to keep us in school till July 23rd, a record late date.
But it was due to two factors, one being the absurdly late start date previous September...way into the second week of the month, plus the gigantic snowstorm in DC that year which paralyzed the city for ten days after Christmas holiday was over, plus the overly generous Easter break.
Suddenly they realize that they're not going to get the required 180 days of instruction unless they kept us well into July, which they did.
School finally let out July 22nd, or so it seems.

But they did allow kids with an adult at home to stay home to watch the launch but everyone had to write two paragraphs about it including us stay at homes. The landing was either a Saturday or Sunday. I got to stay home because Mom did not work at a standard job.

But instead of grousing about it, most of the kids who had to go to school that day were gleeful.
They'd been treated to lunch in the classroom and lots of ice cream sandwiches and not much schoolwork...apparently watching the lunar mission was enough schooling all by itself.

So I guess it wasn't so terrible for them.

PS: The next year (1970) school let out the second week in June, thankfully.
 
I was almost 7. I don't remember it.

It's possible my family were unable to watch ... we moved that summer, spent a few weeks in a motel on a beach before we moved into the house where I spent age 7 and 8. Might have been during that time. I remember some things from that beach summer. But no moon.
 
My grandmother's house down the Jersey Shore, S. Tom's River.

It was supposed to occur earlier, so they let me stay up, but it ended up being about 1 am or so. Stayed up anyway and watched.

The mission left Earth on my 9th birthday. I was in YMCA summer camp and we watched that at the Y.
 
Watching the TV in Maryland until "the Eagle has landed". Then I had to pack up and head for my grandparents home in West Virginia. Hours later, winding my way through the mountains in a rain storm I was only getting spotty radio, as I came to the top of a mountain I suddenly got good reception as they announced Armstrong was getting ready to exit the lander. I pulled over to the side of the road, on a WV mountain top, in the rain and listened until Neil said "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". One of the best birthday presents I had that day.
 
Rexedgar said:
I don’t remember this one. I do remember that our third grade class watched either the Alan Shepard or the John Glenn launch on a grainy b&w tv during class. I was probably high for the Apollo 11 landing.
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I barely remember Apollo 1...I had nightmares about that fire for years. But we watched most in our classrooms.
 
Lursa said:
My grandmother's house down the Jersey Shore, S. Tom's River.

It was supposed to occur earlier, so they let me stay up, but it ended up being about 1 am or so. Stayed up anyway and watched.

The mission left Earth on my 9th birthday. I was in YMCA summer camp and we watched that at the Y.
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I had forgotten that, it they did land far later. I remember laying on a quilt in the backyard with everyone waking me up if I started to doze off.

It was a long time ago, and I am glad they encouraged (twisted my ear) to watch it....
 
Lursa said:
I barely remember Apollo 1...I had nightmares about that fire for years. But we watched most in our classrooms.
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Though I don't remember the 1969 moonlanding, I spent 1971 through 1973 at two space centers. Went to Edward H. White Elementary and Roger B. Chaffee Elementary.
 
Amelia said:
Though I don't remember the 1969 moonlanding, I spent 1971 through 1973 at two space centers. Went to Edward H. White Elementary and Roger B. Chaffee Elementary.
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LOL, sort of. I remember that scene in Deep Impact where the only way to stop the meteor was to drive their ship into it and somebody said, "just look at it this way, we'll all have schools named after us!"

I have family near Cape Kennedy and used to go birding all over Merritt Wildlife Refuge which surrounds it...even back in the secure areas which were not all that secure before 9/11. Back by all the old gantries, storage areas, space shuttle runway. Pretty cool.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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Happy birthday. I was sitting in the Nazi base about a mile away from the Moon landing sight.
 
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