47 years ago today, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

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Message 1803880 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 6:48:24 UTC

Sorry for being a couple hours late on this one. I was going to post it this morning, but got involved with the caption thread and then had to go to work.

It's been 47 years now...
I was a young lad of 12 years at the time.
Worth noting again, I think. It really was an amazing accomplishment for that day and age.

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Message 1803884 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 6:59:58 UTC

...and it feels like only yesterday!
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Message 1803885 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 7:05:08 UTC
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My Mom's handiwork is under the top step of the descent stage of the Eagle(LEM), a copper plaque, with the names of 4 Astronauts, 1 of whom never varied. My Mom worked for Chem-Aero, I was 9 years old then, yes I saw it, on our color TV that Dad bought, I even had the issue of National Geographic that had an Article about the Apollo 11 mission. I had the reference plaque that Mom worked from, I'd taken the grey plastic plate to school for show and tell, I'd shown it to the class, then I asked if the teacher could lock it in Her desk drawer, She refused, saying it wasn't necessary, that no one would steal it, I being a trusting kid put it with My books, when I came back from recess, the plaque was gone, stolen, one of My classmates stole it, but none admitted to the theft, possibly jealous, a small search was made, but it was not found, the kid who did the deed probably tossed the plaque in a trash can, it's probably in a landfill somewhere. Needless to say I never saw any other plaque, I'm lucky Mom didn't lose Her job over this, the teacher sure didn't.

I'd planned on taking the plaque home at lunch time, since I could eat lunch at home, My house was only a block away, and I had a key to the house.
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Message 1803886 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 7:41:11 UTC
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I was working at Mondadori Edizioni Scientifiche in Milano. My boss called me and said the "Epoca" magazine needed some able to translate the dialogue between Apollo 11 astronauts and Houston. I said I could try and I was given three secretaries that alternated typing what I was dictating. I translated 70 pages of astronautical jargon in 24 hours and it was published as an inset in "Epoca" magazine. I still have a copy.
The then Mondadori President, Giorgio Mondadori, son of founder Arnoldo Mondadori, thanked me with a letter and a 270000 lira check,with which I paid one third of a Fiat 128 car, my first car. Happy days!
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Message 1803909 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 13:33:31 UTC

I was 2-1/2. I don't remember any of it.

I do remember wanting to watch a splashdown and everyone telling me there wasn't one that day, but I don't know if I thought it was 11 or 12 or 13 or something in between.

The only Apollo mission I have any memory of is Apollo-Soyuz, and that's not much.
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Message 1803916 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 14:23:07 UTC

I remember that I was 'tanning' on Wasaga Beach
on lake Huron listing to the landing with a tiny
transistor radio. My girls and I were sitting in
a circle intently waiting for touch down. With
"Houston, the Eagle has landed" we all threw up
our arms in a great cheer. I had been a newly minted
corporal at the time, I was 21 years old!


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Message 1803917 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 14:24:45 UTC

I stayed up all night and took photos of it all from the TV. I still have some 35mm slides of it around. I was 13 and could not get enough science.
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Message 1803990 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 21:14:48 UTC

Several years ago I got to personally witness the 40th anniversary of the "Saturn Moon Landing" celebrated as a model rocket launch.
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Message 1803994 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 21:32:53 UTC

Unfortunately I was only 1, and don't remember it. I wish I had been born at least ten years earlier so I could have appreciated it all.
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Message 1803995 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 21:37:23 UTC - in response to Message 1803990.  

Steve Eves, the builder saw the light and became part of it.
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Message 1803998 - Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 22:06:48 UTC

Time flies.
I was in Travemunde, Germany, that day, waiting for a ferry back home and couldn't see the TV broadcast.
The original movies are said to be sharp and clear to almost unreal.
If you could only find them.
Even more than 40 years after the historic landing Nasa lacks 700 boxes of tapes in which the entire broadcast is preserved.
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Message 1804106 - Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 6:42:19 UTC

I was 17 years old. We were camping some where in Canada. The owner of the camp grounds invited everyone to his house to watch it on his TV. The place was packed. That's a memory I wont soon forget.
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Message 1804109 - Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 7:52:38 UTC

I was six years old. The moon landing of 1969 is one of my earliest memories.

In South Africa, one of the consequences of the Nationalist apartheid government that ruled the country at the time was that we had no television - it would only arrive seven years later. I recall listening to a live broadcast of the moon landing, and the subsequent moon walk, on a transistor radio in the kitchen of my house in Cape Town. The radio was perched atop a large Amana fridge-freezer combination. Amana is a well-known American brand, so I guess that was appropriate!
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Message 1804571 - Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 0:01:56 UTC

I was ten at the time and held up a family vacation trip.
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Message 1804599 - Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 5:15:54 UTC - in response to Message 1804571.  

I was ten at the time and held up a family vacation trip.

You held up the vacation trip? Do tell more Uli.
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Message 1805974 - Posted: 31 Jul 2016, 2:34:09 UTC

I was 20 years old and in my third year of college. I lived then as now only 50 miles from the launch site and I was at Cocoa Beach for the launch. I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life.
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Message 1806371 - Posted: 1 Aug 2016, 14:34:55 UTC - in response to Message 1805974.  

I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life.

Maybe the truth is more like the fiction than we realize: combine the beginning of the book 2001 (IIRC, there's stuff in it the movie left out, even though the book and movie were written together) with the TNG episode where Riker is injured while disguised as an alien on a planet that's about to achieve warp flight.
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Message 1806391 - Posted: 1 Aug 2016, 16:40:17 UTC - in response to Message 1806371.  

I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life.

Maybe the truth is more like the fiction than we realize: combine the beginning of the book 2001 (IIRC, there's stuff in it the movie left out, even though the book and movie were written together) with the TNG episode where Riker is injured while disguised as an alien on a planet that's about to achieve warp flight.

Ahh, another conspiracy theory. That aliens have contacted certain government officials who have persuaded them that the world's population isn't ready to know we have company.
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Message 1806406 - Posted: 1 Aug 2016, 17:33:22 UTC - in response to Message 1806391.  

I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life.

Maybe the truth is more like the fiction than we realize: combine the beginning of the book 2001 (IIRC, there's stuff in it the movie left out, even though the book and movie were written together) with the TNG episode where Riker is injured while disguised as an alien on a planet that's about to achieve warp flight.

Ahh, another conspiracy theory. That aliens have contacted certain government officials who have persuaded them that the world's population isn't ready to know we have company.

We are watching.
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Message 1806498 - Posted: 2 Aug 2016, 0:23:10 UTC - in response to Message 1806391.  

I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life.

Maybe the truth is more like the fiction than we realize: combine the beginning of the book 2001 (IIRC, there's stuff in it the movie left out, even though the book and movie were written together) with the TNG episode where Riker is injured while disguised as an alien on a planet that's about to achieve warp flight.

Ahh, another conspiracy theory. That aliens have contacted certain government officials who have persuaded them that the world's population isn't ready to know we have company.

I don't think we are. The world would go nuts to make the current terror situation look like a Sunday in the park.

I don't necessarily believe there has been actual contact as depicted in TNG, but I would not call the possibility of *something* having been found zero.
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