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It's hard to believe that it has been 40 years since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon, with a small fragile capsule that had to be controlled manually, when the on board computer began to overshoot control. Launched July 16, 1969 - landed July 20.
Do you remember where you were? I was on a family trip to ancestral Ireland and we stopped for three days in London on the way home. We saw the landing on a large screen set up in Trafalgar Square that was filled with excited Brits. I don't know how they managed that presentation back then but I will never forget it.
I was asleep in England as my parents wouldn't let me stay up to watch the landing. I remember that the day before we had all gone on a bus trip to Liverpool.
Not watching the Moon landing live remains my biggest regret ever.
I was in Newfoundland at the time. I phoned a friend that I kept in touch with a couple of times a year, and she asked "Are you watching TV?" I said no, why, and she said men are landing on the moon. I had an old TV set that I kept under the kitchen table in my small apartment, but I hardly ever turned it on except to watch sports once in a while. Sports events on TV were interrupted often enough to show various blastoffs, spashdowns, and "Heidi" and I was quite weary of them all.
I had a feeling the live coverage of such things was because, in the depths of their black souls, people wanted to see someone die on live TV, which was a programming temptation that the networks resisted. Viewers finally got their wish a couple of decades later, and after that, they seemed to lose interest. I didn't see that, either.
At home. I had a book about space travel, along with models of the Apollo and Gemini spacecraft. I read everything I could on the subject, including the newspapers.
That night we stayed up late and crowded into the den to watch Neil Armstrong take his first steps. I was six at the time. I still remember it like yesterday. Amazing stuff.
Me and two brothers were playing with friends my parents were visiting when my dad yelled for us all to come and watch history happening. I was 10 yrs old and remember it like yesterday. I am lucky I guess cause I can remember in detail a lot of things growing up to as young as about 2 yrs old. Wish I could forget the bad and remember only good though.
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If my parents were watching it then I must have seen it too.
