When they landed I was fishing with my Dad at a local stocked lake. Never caught anything there. When they stepped out, glued to the tube in the living room.

Never did I not think 50 years later we wouldn't have a colony there.

a colony would require air tight vacuum proof building, that would also be able to be insulated against the extremes of temps found on the moon, plus the lack of an atmosphere like on earth, plus how do Ya make a concrete foundation in a vacuum? Water & a hard vacuum don't exactly mix, on Mars water boils away cause of just the low pressure alone...

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I wasn't born yet :/

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I was siting in the living room with my dad, brother, sister, mom and a half brother. I remember holding my breath. I was 16.

a colony would require air tight vacuum proof building, that would also be able to be insulated against the extremes of temps found on the moon, plus the lack of an atmosphere like on earth, plus how do Ya make a concrete foundation in a vacuum? Water & a hard vacuum don't exactly mix, on Mars water boils away cause of just the low pressure alone...

Well there is the ISS
And whilst it not on the moon and was assembled in orbit, it is air tight and has to deal with extremes of temperature. I believe that if we can build that we can and should have a colony on the Moon, and be looking to Mars. The problem was that once "space travel" became an "everyday" thing the public got bored and governments cut funding.

I wonder how many of you (without checking) could tell me how many astronauts and their nationalities are currently aboard the ISS? (I couldn't)

With the world in the state it's in too many people call for money to be spent on more "Earthly" problems, probably without realising that a lot of groundbreaking technology came about because of the space program.

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When they landed I was fishing with my Dad at a local stocked lake. Never caught anything there. When they stepped out, glued to the tube in the living room.

Never did I not think 50 years later we wouldn't have a colony there.

a colony would require air tight vacuum proof building, that would also be able to be insulated against the extremes of temps found on the moon, plus the lack of an atmosphere like on earth, plus how do Ya make a concrete foundation in a vacuum? Water & a hard vacuum don't exactly mix, on Mars water boils away cause of just the low pressure alone...

I did a quick search and found this site on how to build a moon base.moonbase

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I don't remember as I wasn't born yet. Must have been a great experience though.

Well said, I was going to say about the same thing. I was born in 87 so it was a bit before my time. But that had to be so awesome to watch! I feel like I missed out on seeing A LOT of great things.

Great things happened in the sixties. I always wanted to live in that time, if only for the music then.

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I hadn't been born yet either. I love the story about the astronauts sneaking a golf club and ball up there Vic :)

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I still remember, even i was a young boy back then.
It was amazing.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

On one of the later missions a hammer and a feather were also taken to the moon,
Now then,
hold one in each hand and if you let go of a hammer and a feather at exactly the same time which hits the ground first ?
Do it in your back yard, i think we know that one.
Do it on the moon, they land at the same time.
Neat, huh.
I can still rewind the vid of seeing that done.

I always wanted to live in that time,

I must say you should also revel in your own time, remember, you are here.

Savoir Faire is everywhere!(I'll make mincemeat out of that mouse!)

Oopsie! Yeah I also had a subscription to National Geographic then, the moon landings were covered, of course I don't have any of those issues anymore...

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Hammer versus feather on the moon.

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Hammer versus feather on the moon.

It was shure to be on there somewhere :¬)

Great things happened in the sixties. I always wanted to live in that time, if only for the music then.

I remember listening to Joan Baez live at the Arena di Milano with my pregnant wife in 1968. A thunderstorm ended the concert.
Tullio

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I always wanted to live in that time,

I must say you should also revel in your own time, remember, you are here.

I know I know, always look ahead;)

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20 July 1969, we were in Corona, Ca, visiting my mother's Aunt Rose in a nursing home. Watched the first steps on a TV in the common area.

Many years later, attending L5/National Space Society conventions, I had the priviledge of having lunch and/or dinner with Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, several Shuttle astronauts, and many prominent science fiction writers. Wish I had pictures, but those are great memories. My favorite is meeting Robert Heinlein at the first L5 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles in 1982.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

seriously I am amazed at how many here have been first hand acquaintances of famous people of interest to me. I am honored to know you people.

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#resist

I sat next to Al Pacino in a plane once. We didn't talk much though. One thing I remember is that he's really small.

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My Dad met the late Lloyd Bridges at work while taking bridge tolls on the Vincent Thomas Bridge...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's