The Eagle has landed... July 20th 1969

[Anna Iram]

The single greatest adventure mankind has had to date. What an achievement!

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/F_Apollo_35th_Anniversary.html

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/web/shows/NASA/?page=2
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/nasa.html

[mehan]

I was so excited - this was going to be some interesting topics of conversation at work today..... until I realized just how old I am..... most of the people who work with me (and this INCLUDES many of the doctors, sigh......) weren't even born or were too young to remember and don't find it significant.

I was only nine - but I remember it oh so well.  It was a great time in American history. 

[Noble Dreg]

As a kid I remember seeing the landing in the school auditorium on a small B&W TV...I swear no one gave a damn but I was beyond thrilled!  I built a Saturn V model rocket and the lunar lander.  Serious geek alert but I am currently working on a scale model of the Gemini capsule.  Those were some heady days.

WARNING:  The following video contains some course language but if I had landed on the moon this is what I would have said...

http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/4085-The-Onion-Moon-Landing.html

[Woodsman]

I was 12 living in here in central Florida when the Eagle went to the moon. We went outside to watch them take off.

Now I go outside with my grandkids to watch the Shuttle go up.

[Anna Iram]

I grew up in Florida as well and well recall watching the launches. We lived in the Tampa area, not real close but you could see the trail and the sun glinting off the module. We went to one of the very early Apollo launches. So exciting. So awesome to see it launch up close.

My grandmother, who was 90 and living in Alabama never saw a live launch and firmly believed the moon walk was staged in a television studio. Lot's of people just could not wrap their heads around such an accomplishment.

Noble Dreg, I'd love to see a pic of your model when it's done.

[Molden]

I was a little feller in Manor, TX watching the lunar landing on a small black and white TV when it happened. I remember the adults breaking out binoculars and (obviously) low-powered telescopes to look at the moon...

and my disappointment at not getting to see the actual astronauts on the moon with such devices.

I was worried "moon monsters" might get 'em. (One too many Scooby-Doo episodes I fear.) 

[Sir William Marcus]

I remember.  I was a wee lad in elementary school as well. They took our class to the library to watch it on a black & white. I can still visualize it.

[mehan]

THe paper had a story this morning, a local man was an engineer on several apollo missions - had jackets, certificates and the like and although his own mother watched it on TV - to her dying day she said it was all a hoax.   

[Rani Zemirah]

I was only 4 1/2 years old, but I remember vividly being glued to the screen for days, watching everything I could find about the whole thing, and sneaking out of my room at night (ok, so it was only 9:30, to me it was night!) to turn on the TV and see them getting closer and closer to the landing site.  Of course it took forever to actually get there, but I didn't care, I just knew if I left the room they were going to land and I would miss it!  I watched everything, and when they finally touched down it was like a whole new world suddenly opened up for me, and nothing was ever the same again...

[Elennare]

I'm one of those people far to young to remember the moon landing, but I still think it's awesome!  One of my favorite books as a small child was one all about the moon landing.  I read that book so many times.   It's so very sad that society has lost the sense of wonder about space travel.  Do they realize that we are actually sending people into SPACE?  How is that not interesting and cool?  And when they complain that NASA is just a waste of money, do they realize what we've learned from the space program?

*deletes long, rather off-topic, rant about moon hoax and flat earth people and how they essentially claim half my degree is BS*

I'm looking forward to when we send people to Mars.  That'll get society in general interested in this stuff again, right?  Wonder when NASA's going to start looking for people to make that happen.  I should look into that...

[Blue66669]

Hey yeah, thanks to NASA, we have TEMPURPEDIC!

[Anna Iram]

...LOL...and TANG!

[Lady Nicolette]

I was in Fort Bragg, CA at my great aunt and uncles' home.  I remember them quite clearly raising their old 48-state American flag on their flagpole as we watched the astronauts bouncing on the moon.

[Noble Dreg]

Hey yeah, thanks to NASA, we have TEMPURPEDIC!

I love my Tempurpedic!

And Tang, I like that too.

[SirRichardBear]

I was 9 and my parents let me stay up to watch the landing.  Sad when I asked my students yesterday What important event happened 40 years ago not a single one knew the answer.  Makes you wonder what if anything they teach in schools today.