Where were you on The Moon Landing in 1969?

[John-UK]

Originally Posted by OGquaker

Within 20 years of the Wright's paper airplane, PanAm was flying thousands of people between the world's continents with four radial engines. Can you spot the 30 year difference between a 1984 767 and the latest A320Neo?

We had Concorde and the TU-144, which were technical marvels. But the need to get out fast to the rest of the world was negated by comms that brought the world into us. I believe the Brits are making snails progress on HOTOL.

I watched AT&T (PacBell) pull their fiber optics out of the streets in 1997 to deprive their competition under the 1994 communications act.

Competition progresses the world they tell us - vested interest holds it back.

I had to fire a UCLA graduate student in 'electronics' when, after listening to my multiple warnings, he vaporized the copper on a computer backplane. His training did not include ground faults above 3 amps or 3 volts!

That was not his fault.

Every spare hour and dime America's 99% have- get's sucked up by 'privitaztion', Not for the common good.

Yep, appropriating commonly created wealth.

[Max96]

I was nonexistent back then.

[msgsing]

Working at the American embassy in Singapore. One of the bright spots amidst the Vietnam war.

[catdad7x]

I had just finished a tour in Vietnam, and was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savanna Ga. My buddy and I were cruising south down the highway towards Jacksonville Fl. when the news came on radio. It was a road trip to remember for sure.

[383man]

On earth watching it. Ron

[I_Like_Spam]

Originally Posted by User1771

So CD members, where were you when the moon Landing happened in 1969? What were you doing then?

Sweating like a pig, it was a very warm night, not very good sleeping weather.

It was pretty late at night when it occurred, I can't say I was watching when it was on, but the TV was on and my parents were.

[Mr. In-Between]

No, the landing was late afternoon Eastern time. They didn't clamber out and start hopping around until several hours later, though - the "one small step for a man" was about midnight.

[nightbird47]

Landing, just before we left for our vacation. We got on the SS Catalina and went to spend the week at the beach. The place we rented didn't normally have a tv, but for the only time we ever did there, we rented a tv. Mom and I spend our week there every summer, and Dad came if he could. He wasn't so much a beach fan as a mountain fan. But then with his job working with the space program, he'd want to be there that week anyway.

On a lovely warn and starry night, we sat and watched a man walk on the moon that night. We'd have stayed home that day if we couldn't have fit that in. I remember walking outside, smelling the nice ocean breezes and the sky full of stars, but looking at the moon, filled with this immense joy that we had stepped off Earth.

The rest of the week, we watched the news and any other coverage of the landing, but kept it off otherwise.

[Frihed89]

Pumping gas and washing trucks in Vail, Colorado.

[Easybreezy]

I was a kid at the time and was excited to be allowed to stay up late that night! We hovered around the TV watching CBS with Walter Cronkite who was a huge proponent of space the whole night, and it was a hot, humid July night.

My grandfather who was aged 78 at the time, remarked that he never thought he'd live long enough to see man walk on the moon. He had started his life in the horse and buggy era, and ended it with man walking on the moon. He passed away a year later in 1970.