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...what was everyone doing. I was on holiday, no TV so never saw live one of the great moments in human history.
I was minus 5.
But I'd loved to have seen the moon landings.
Mrs PJM1974 was a scant two months and two days old and much to my annoyance doesn't remember a thing about that night.
I walked across fields to my aunt's place. They had a TV.
In the morning I walked home across the school playing fields & saw bunnies. They were rare in those post-myxomitosis days.
I heard what Armstrong actually said, and not what was reported.
I was 4 and my mum and dad decided not to keep me up to watch.
Then, as the module landed, I toddled into their bedroom and watched it anyway.
Not that I actually remember, of course!
I was seven and remember how excited my folks were. My step-dad was a proper government sponsored scientist who'd done some 'secret' stuff earlier in his career. I was less bothered than them though and more excited by being allowed to stay up late and get up early.
I still have all the special edition newspapers somewhere.
Or "I'm a small man with a giant..."
watched it at home with my parents and two older brothers. Have still got the commemorative mug and (somewhere) the 45rpm single of the commentary of the landing.
I heard what Armstrong actually said, and not what was reported.
So what did Armstrong [i]actually[/i] say then ?
Was it ......[i]"No Buzz, you not a space ranger ! You do not fight evil or shoot lasers, and ...... YOU CANNOT FLY !!!"[/i]
i was 3 years old so probably watching 'watch with mother'... 'rag tag and bobtail' or the 'wooden tops' or 'Andy Pandy' lol
We were let out of school (NZ) early to watch or listen on the wireless- we were lucky enough to have a telly> I can still remember that as an eight year old I was thoroughly expecting some sort of disaster to overtake Armstrong on that first step, whether it was to sink into the dust, to be dragged down by a giant creature living on the moon etc etc. Too much Dan Dare I think.
It's one of the few major events that I can remember where I was and what I was doing 'cos the actual stepping onto the moon's surface was early in the morning, our time, on the 21st. Which is my birthday. Happy birthday to me. 😀
I was minus 11.
My dad would have been a Lieutenant in the 8th Royal Tank Regiment and he reckons he was bored somewhere on Salisbury Plain at the time. My mum was watching it with her parents on a recently purchased television.
Minus ten.
Just finished reading Gene Kranz's (flight director for Gemini/Apollo missions) book, Failure Is Not An Option. It's mind-blowing the amount of engineering (and all of the systems around it) that got done in such a short space of time. And that it all did get done in an analogue world, when computers took a whole weekend to calculate trajectories and the lunar module computer overloaded if it was asked to display something at the same time as calculating things. Makes the achievement seem even more incredible.
No TV!
I was filming it on work experience
I was in heaven when someone suggested I pay visit to Earth.
I was in the que for years but was seconds in my reality.
Little did I realise I would be in hell, forget my memory and my special powers.
😆 😆 8)