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Topic: One small step +40 years: What are you doing?
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Lunar Module 5
Member Posts: 370
From: Wales, UK
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 07-20-2009 09:52 PM
   
I am wondering what other cSer's are doing at this 40th anniversary moment [around when Armstrong made his small step in 1969].Me, I am at work on a night shift in the UK, listening to the NASA feed of the first moonwalk... it feels very surreal! What were you guys doing? |
EPick
New Member Posts: 9
From: Conway, AR USA
Registered: Nov 2008
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posted 07-20-2009 10:05 PM
Sitting at my computer in Conway, Arkansas listening to the NASA.gov real time feed. I am 27 so I wasn't able to see it when it happened but I had chill bumps during the pause before Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind." |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 07-20-2009 10:11 PM
Caught me. Sitting at our home in a small town near Toronto listening to the NASA Apollo 11 Radio feed.I should add, 40 years ago I was ten years old sitting in the living room of our house watching the old black and white as Armstrongs leg came into view down the ladder...the image was upside down but that did not matter.
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AstronautBrian
Member Posts: 290
From: Louisiana
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 07-20-2009 10:12 PM
I wasn't born for another ten years but my dad told me how he sat on the floor in front of the television with my grandparents and watched the whole thing. I live in my grandparents old house, and I can picture him as a young boy sitting in this very room watching the moon landing. Right now, I am listening to the real time audio feed. |
Mr Meek
Member Posts: 353
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 07-20-2009 10:13 PM
Mrs. Meek and I were sitting at the laptop, watching NASA TV and listening to the "live" audio. We were both born in 1982, so it was the closest we'll ever get to having been there 40 years ago. Just wonderful. |
Machodoc
Member Posts: 207
From: DE
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 07-21-2009 12:12 AM
I was 10, and this was the first time in my life I was allowed to stay up all night. I watched the coverage and ate toasted peanut butter sandwiches. |
randy
Member Posts: 2231
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 07-21-2009 02:52 AM
I was putting my Revell Apollo spacecraft (with LM) together and watching TV. |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 07-21-2009 10:08 AM
Besides wishing the Apollo 11 crew a happy 40th on another cS thread I was watching the end of 'When We Left Earth: The 40th Anniversary Special'.But the highlight was definitely wishing Aldrin a happy anniversary in person at KSC on the anniversary of the July 16 launch. |
AstroAutos
Member Posts: 803
From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 07-21-2009 10:14 AM
I was watching 'In the Shadow of the Moon' on TV - it was absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed every minute of it - watching Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin talking about the landing EXACTLY 40 years previous was wonderful!  |
jdcupp
Member Posts: 45
From: Cookeville, TN, USA
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-21-2009 10:32 AM
I was spending the day in Huntsville, Alabama at the US Space and Rocket Center meeting Skylab and Shuttle alum Dr. Owen Garriott, and space artist Paul Calle. Former Marshall Spaceflight Center employees and their families were honored with a day of fun and hospitality. My best moment was when an elderly man sat down to rest on a bench next to me under the engines of the Saturn V housed in the Davidson Center, and told me of the days when he used to work with Dr. Von Braun. Priceless. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-21-2009 12:37 PM
I was at Grandma's house. Parents were out of town on a trip, and I was being babysat there. Mom told Grandma "Make sure Tom sees the landing!" I was just under 2 years old, watching the landing, filling my diaper, and drooling on my shirt. Funny... years later when I stood under the Saturn V an KSC, and watched a shuttle launch - I again drooled on my shirt. Didn't fill my shorts though... but it was close! |
Dwight
Member Posts: 577
From: Germany
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 07-21-2009 06:08 PM
I spent the day at Fresnedilla Cultural Center with the ex-engineers from the Madrid tracking station. We all looked at a small museum set up celebrating the station. Following that we went to the Robledo Tracking Station and bid farewell to the decommissioned antenna. We then had late-lunch at Fresnedillas again where many stories where exchanged. Today I and my girfriend were given a pe4rsonal tour of Robledo as Cassini was sending down data packets (which took 2hrs 47 min to reach earth). It was an unforgettable weekend, albeit riddled with mishaps and problems from the second I drover to the airport. To top it all off I returned to discover my car had been broken into and removed from the carpark by the police for forensic investigation. Tomorrow I find out exactly what damage has been done. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3160
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-21-2009 09:06 PM
OK, I admit I was watching the landing section from the Apollo 11 Spacecraft Films DVD set, timed so that touchdown took place at 9.18pm local time. Boy, that brought back memories of a long-ago summer evening! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2516
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 07-22-2009 05:42 AM
We completed some details on the full scale display we made of that first step including the lower section of the LM leg/ladder. I called my older brother and we talked about that day and how we stayed up late into the night watching the coverage. Now that it is 40 years later and I am 40 years older I was asleep at the actual anniversary moment Neil put his foot on the moon.To see a picture of the display scroll down on this thread in Publications & Multimedia. |
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