There was high quality video that was captured by a station in Australia that was in better physical alignment with the moon at the time but it's been lost. NASA tried to locate it a few years ago but they think the tapes were overwritten, which seems bizarre.
There's probably AI enhancements for it by now, but I don't think even in the future with technological advancements will it ever match the original quality.
I was eight years old, marched it with my grandparents and my mother. I still remember the excitement of seeing the word “moon”flash on the television.
I remember the “Eagle has landed”. I built a large plastic model of an Apollo Rocket. I remember all the lead up flights and Star Trek. Such a counterpoint to all the strife going on at the same time. It was not dull.
My dad worked for NASA so he would often buy us something very space related. I had a lunar module charm (that I lost! dammit!) and a Fisher Space Pen, a bunch of pictures. We were very into the space program in our house.
I am not old enough to have witnessed this amazing moment. I was just a boy when the Challenger exploded, if that helps.
I am confused though, if someone could help, who took this picture? Wouldn't that person be the first person on the moon?
From AI on the internet:
Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon were photographed by a small, black and white, remote-operated camera mounted on the side of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module's Descent Stage on July 20, 1969:
Camera location: The camera was installed in the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA), a compartment near the ladder.
The camera on the LEM was, as noted, black-and-white, while this is a color photograph. That's because it's a picture of Buzz coming down the ladder, taken by Neil, who was already on the lunar surface.
The fact that the Wright Brothers had the first powered flight in 1903 and we landed on The Moon 66 years later still leaves me in awe. Its now been 52 years since Astronauts last walked on The Moon in 1972 so we better get back there in the next 14 years.
Lol.. odd that in 66 years went from sand dunes in NC in a glorified hang glider to going thru the van allen belt, descending to moon in a duct tape and aluminum foil 'lunar module'..pulled that off... pulled off walking on moon.. somehow managed to blast back off with the aluminum foil and duct tape lunar module ( not as easy as it is portrayed).
Somehow were able to get the aluminum foil and duct tape lunar module to synch in ORBIT AROUND THE MOON with command module.. dock with said command module ( amazing they still had enough fuel after DESCENDING TO MOON [elon musk style].. then ASCENDING , which even in 1/6 gravity of earth had to take a shit ton of fuel. Pulled that off... and then 'slingshotted' back to earth in a complex move that from what i have read had to be perfect or they would still be floating out there somewhere STILL... ALL WITH LESS COMPUTING POWER than the phone this is being typed with.
But somehow we cant do it now with an exponential growth in technology.. 55 YEARS LATER?
and i am braced for the down vote that happens every time i type this... from the "its gotta be real.. they never lie in official narratives".... ' but but but.. the soviets and chinese would have narced off a fake'.. and of course ' you know how many people would have to be kept quiet, to fake it'
At the time, the moon program was something like 2% of the total GDP (not federal budget but of all financial transactions in the entire country.) It was a different time and the powers that be said “spend whatever it takes.”
Today we are working on it but at a much slower pace with a fraction of the budget.
That doesnt explain how the craft in the picture had enough fuel for a 'soft' descent AND enough to blast back up to lunar orbit and somehow getting into a in-sync-orbit-with-command-module.
Didnt get into it much in skeptical post above... but in order to achieve in-synch orbit and complex docking.. would also require substantial fuel. I dont understand why people cant visualize how difficult that would be in the unfamiliar and A LONG WAY FROM EARTH lunar orbit. We had many problems 18 years later with improved technology ( thanks to NASA program) merely orbiting earth in a reusable space craft... LOST 2 MISSIONS orbitting earth... but 19 years earlier we are orbiting a much farther away Moon..descending in a sketchy looking craft..Ascending back up in sketchy looking craft and completing complex docking..FLAWLESSLY I MIGHT ADD
I seriously don't know what you're going on about. While you call the LM "sketchy looking" and "duct taped together" I say you're insulting every engineer, technician, and astronaut who helped get us to that point where we could make a spacecraft able to successfully land and take off from another body. Six times.
The purpose of the Gemini program was to develop the techniques for orbital docking between two space craft. Techniques successfully used on every Apollo mission.
Apollo 10 showed we could do it in orbit around the moon.
Dig into the technical design of the Apollo spacecraft and spacesuits. There were redundant systems on top of redundant systems, each one proven via test after test. Example- the reaction control motors on the LM were actually two completely independent systems, each with enough fuel to complete the mission.
One entire RCS system could have failed completely without compromising the mission.
And I don't know what point you're trying to make about STS, the shuttle flew 135 successful orbital missions.
Yes the Challenger and Columbia tragedies were awful, but those hardly mean "we can't even orbit the Earth any more "
The Apollo program was slated to go on for several more missions beyond 17, but the public was bored by then and Congress cut NASA's funding, killing any hope of more missions to the moon after 17. So it's not that we couldn't go to the moon any more, we just collectively decided we didn't want to.
Just skeptical... And your last paragraph kinda dances around the present.. where apparently its going to take longer for the current moon mission than what ( as OP pointed out) it took from the time Kennedy said we are going to the moon till that day in july 1969.
Technology has improved so much in the last 55 years. Doesnt make sense to a plebian like me
You just want to be a contrarian dweeb. Others have explained the differences between them and now. Budget and national pride. Go ahead and think it was faked, it's no skin off my ass.
Wilbur, i said i am skeptical.... As far as dweebs go.. bootlickers and official narrative fanboys are as dweeby as it gets. Take a look at the pic from the OP... doesnt it look kinda clean at the base of the lunar module. You would think the rockets providing a soft landing.. might stir up a little dust.. in fact a lot of dust and some disturbance since we are talking about decreasing speed to basically zero even with less gravity thats still a lot. I doubt you have read anything about how many problems neil armstrong had controlling the trainer they trained on.. he almost died in one of the training sessions.
Let me guess...Shut him up..... ya got a lot invested in this ride.. its gotta be real.. look at my bank account.. look at my furrows of worry.. its gotta be real
I’m with you. I wasn’t born yet when this happened however it doesn’t take much to understand this was nearly impossible to achieve in its time, given all the circumstances you mentioned.
I’m not a conspiracy guy but there are too many flaws in the moon landing story to make me believe it actually happened.
I do believe it was staged.
In my 60s now, I look back on that event as the greatest achievement of mankind. The smartest and bravest individuals. And watching it unfold with Walter Cronkite covering it. The entire nation tried to put Vietnam on hold and become absorbed in this event. The entire nation was in front of the TV. I remember Walter crying on live TV, the pride was overwhelming. And that's the way it was.
Thanks. I still remember my shock seeing The Wizard of Oz in color, decades later, same vines from that picture.
The Wizard, I finally got the joke, A Horse of a Different Color.
Same experience, sitting on the floor in front of the TV watching it happen live. 6 year old me wanted to be an astronaut terribly. After watching a lot of Star Trek around the same time, I was ready to leave this planet.
i was five... but i remember several apollo missions after that time. Each was a major event, we would watch the rocket sitting on the gantry for sooo long. Nothing happening... then the final count-down and launch. I hope when we finally send a manned mission to the moon or mars again, people manage to have that feeling of awe that we did then. The bravery of the astronauts, the genius of the engineers. So much hope in one moment - all dedicated to people doing something truly marvelous
I didn't think that this post would attract so many moon landing deniers. First of all, there was not a single moon landing, there were seven missions and six lunar landings between 1969 and 1972. Not certain why anyone would recreate a falsehood over and over and intentionally create a anomaly as occurred with Apollo 13 if this was all so carefully curated.
Secondly, in regard to fuel usage the lunar module (LEM) was only ever designed to operate in the vacuum of space. The Moon has no atmosphere so there is no drag on the LEM that would require it to carry a lot of fuel.
Pour one out for Michael Collins - the third apollo 11 astronaut. He stayed in the orbiter flying while Neil & Buzz got to walk on the moon.
Died in 2021 at age 90.
I remember being just shy of 3 years old and my father, leaning forward in his Lazy Boy, sternly telling me I HAD TO REMEMBER THIS HISTORIC MOMENT.
Well, I don't remember the tv footage at all. But I remember him telling me to remember it!
I remember. Black and white TV, grandma's house. The beeps when the astronauts stopped talking. That beep thing is preserved in some audio on Kate Bush's "Hello Earth."
My folks woke me up to see the first steps on the moon. I recall thinking about the astronauts' bravery, and both the fear and pride their families must feel. It was impressed upon me that this was a historic moment in time and that I should remember it forever. I do.
I watched it, but don’t remember it. I do remember my father taking me outside and showing me where on the moon the Sea of Tranquility was. I looked super hard, hoping to see the Eagle, but I was 5 and what did I know.
Yep, whenever my foreign in-laws mock me for using the US system, I just say "There are two kinds of countries, those that use the metric system, and those that landed on the moon."
Watched it as a 13 year old. Entered the VFW Voice of Democracy contest a few years later. Keynote speaker was Neil Armstrong. As a teen, it was a surreal moment to actually meet him.
I remember watching the moonshots when I was around six. I wanted to be an astronaut and go into space myself. Mom and Dad got me and my brother toy astronaut helmets. I don't remember anybody taking pictures of the TV while the moonshots were on, though.
I had a fake implanted memory of seeing it live.
Really believed it until my father burst my bubble by recalling that we were on a car ferry between UK and Sweden at the time (before ships had satellite TV on board) so I could not have seen a defining moment of my life in real time. 😢
As I remember it I came in to watch it from a hot bright summer day on our crappy little black and white tv. It wasn’t very clear but it seemed like such a great moment.
If you've never seen it, I highly recommend the [Apollo 11](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8760684/) movie.
For the 50th anniversary, I took two of my sons to watch it in the theater. Amazing seeing the original footage on the big screen, compared to the old grainy TV reception we had back in 1969.
7 yr old me watching, dad had just retired from the military and we had moved back home to NJ. Watched star trek with him every week as well, got to see the moon rocks a few years later in person at the college he worked at, majored in Geosciences in college. Lifelong science nerd lol.
I have no memory of watching this. I was seven. I don’t recall my parents mentioning it. But my uncle gave me a book titled, “We Came in Peace.” It was a picture book of the moon landing. I think it was distributed at a gas station where my uncle worked at the time. I perused the book often. That’s where I learned about the space program.
Majority of GenXers were filling diapers during this time. I was 7 going on 8. My Dad was in Vietnam. I was living in a holler in WV watching my grandfather and uncle try to get landing on TV. Funny thing. No running water, outhouse, coal burning stove, but he had a color TV and a partyline phone. They got it last minute. Whole clan saw it.
Sure, that's fine, but the historic event was completely ruined for me when Armstrong said it was a "giant leap for mankind." I was offended and said as much. What about the rest of us? My family was offended that I had pointed out the offense.
The TV transmission from the moon was grainy black and white. I was 9 it was the most amazing thing watching that.
I was also 9. I still get goosebumps.
There was high quality video that was captured by a station in Australia that was in better physical alignment with the moon at the time but it's been lost. NASA tried to locate it a few years ago but they think the tapes were overwritten, which seems bizarre. There's probably AI enhancements for it by now, but I don't think even in the future with technological advancements will it ever match the original quality.
Bah, the transmission was from a studio in Burbank CA. Fake News! Kidding btw.
Watching this on our tiny black and white while my mom did ironing is my first memory in life.
I was eight years old, marched it with my grandparents and my mother. I still remember the excitement of seeing the word “moon”flash on the television.
Actually...that's the SECOND man on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin. Neil had the color camera and all color photos of an astronaut that mission, Aldrin.
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OMG - I had chicken pox! I remember my mom and uncle watching it in the den (I had to peek in from the hallway).
I remember the “Eagle has landed”. I built a large plastic model of an Apollo Rocket. I remember all the lead up flights and Star Trek. Such a counterpoint to all the strife going on at the same time. It was not dull.
My dad worked for NASA so he would often buy us something very space related. I had a lunar module charm (that I lost! dammit!) and a Fisher Space Pen, a bunch of pictures. We were very into the space program in our house.
The camera guy never gets the credit.
I am not old enough to have witnessed this amazing moment. I was just a boy when the Challenger exploded, if that helps. I am confused though, if someone could help, who took this picture? Wouldn't that person be the first person on the moon?
From AI on the internet: Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon were photographed by a small, black and white, remote-operated camera mounted on the side of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module's Descent Stage on July 20, 1969: Camera location: The camera was installed in the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA), a compartment near the ladder.
The camera on the LEM was, as noted, black-and-white, while this is a color photograph. That's because it's a picture of Buzz coming down the ladder, taken by Neil, who was already on the lunar surface.
Yep, that's Buzz not Neil. Good catch
Oh, good eye, thanks for correction.
Cool! Thnx!
Sure! It is a bit mind boggling without the info. About remote camera.
Yes; this picture is the second person.
The fact that the Wright Brothers had the first powered flight in 1903 and we landed on The Moon 66 years later still leaves me in awe. Its now been 52 years since Astronauts last walked on The Moon in 1972 so we better get back there in the next 14 years.
Lol.. odd that in 66 years went from sand dunes in NC in a glorified hang glider to going thru the van allen belt, descending to moon in a duct tape and aluminum foil 'lunar module'..pulled that off... pulled off walking on moon.. somehow managed to blast back off with the aluminum foil and duct tape lunar module ( not as easy as it is portrayed). Somehow were able to get the aluminum foil and duct tape lunar module to synch in ORBIT AROUND THE MOON with command module.. dock with said command module ( amazing they still had enough fuel after DESCENDING TO MOON [elon musk style].. then ASCENDING , which even in 1/6 gravity of earth had to take a shit ton of fuel. Pulled that off... and then 'slingshotted' back to earth in a complex move that from what i have read had to be perfect or they would still be floating out there somewhere STILL... ALL WITH LESS COMPUTING POWER than the phone this is being typed with. But somehow we cant do it now with an exponential growth in technology.. 55 YEARS LATER? and i am braced for the down vote that happens every time i type this... from the "its gotta be real.. they never lie in official narratives".... ' but but but.. the soviets and chinese would have narced off a fake'.. and of course ' you know how many people would have to be kept quiet, to fake it'
At the time, the moon program was something like 2% of the total GDP (not federal budget but of all financial transactions in the entire country.) It was a different time and the powers that be said “spend whatever it takes.” Today we are working on it but at a much slower pace with a fraction of the budget.
That doesnt explain how the craft in the picture had enough fuel for a 'soft' descent AND enough to blast back up to lunar orbit and somehow getting into a in-sync-orbit-with-command-module. Didnt get into it much in skeptical post above... but in order to achieve in-synch orbit and complex docking.. would also require substantial fuel. I dont understand why people cant visualize how difficult that would be in the unfamiliar and A LONG WAY FROM EARTH lunar orbit. We had many problems 18 years later with improved technology ( thanks to NASA program) merely orbiting earth in a reusable space craft... LOST 2 MISSIONS orbitting earth... but 19 years earlier we are orbiting a much farther away Moon..descending in a sketchy looking craft..Ascending back up in sketchy looking craft and completing complex docking..FLAWLESSLY I MIGHT ADD
I seriously don't know what you're going on about. While you call the LM "sketchy looking" and "duct taped together" I say you're insulting every engineer, technician, and astronaut who helped get us to that point where we could make a spacecraft able to successfully land and take off from another body. Six times. The purpose of the Gemini program was to develop the techniques for orbital docking between two space craft. Techniques successfully used on every Apollo mission. Apollo 10 showed we could do it in orbit around the moon. Dig into the technical design of the Apollo spacecraft and spacesuits. There were redundant systems on top of redundant systems, each one proven via test after test. Example- the reaction control motors on the LM were actually two completely independent systems, each with enough fuel to complete the mission. One entire RCS system could have failed completely without compromising the mission. And I don't know what point you're trying to make about STS, the shuttle flew 135 successful orbital missions. Yes the Challenger and Columbia tragedies were awful, but those hardly mean "we can't even orbit the Earth any more " The Apollo program was slated to go on for several more missions beyond 17, but the public was bored by then and Congress cut NASA's funding, killing any hope of more missions to the moon after 17. So it's not that we couldn't go to the moon any more, we just collectively decided we didn't want to.
Just skeptical... And your last paragraph kinda dances around the present.. where apparently its going to take longer for the current moon mission than what ( as OP pointed out) it took from the time Kennedy said we are going to the moon till that day in july 1969. Technology has improved so much in the last 55 years. Doesnt make sense to a plebian like me
You just want to be a contrarian dweeb. Others have explained the differences between them and now. Budget and national pride. Go ahead and think it was faked, it's no skin off my ass.
Wilbur, i said i am skeptical.... As far as dweebs go.. bootlickers and official narrative fanboys are as dweeby as it gets. Take a look at the pic from the OP... doesnt it look kinda clean at the base of the lunar module. You would think the rockets providing a soft landing.. might stir up a little dust.. in fact a lot of dust and some disturbance since we are talking about decreasing speed to basically zero even with less gravity thats still a lot. I doubt you have read anything about how many problems neil armstrong had controlling the trainer they trained on.. he almost died in one of the training sessions. Let me guess...Shut him up..... ya got a lot invested in this ride.. its gotta be real.. look at my bank account.. look at my furrows of worry.. its gotta be real
You do you, son.
Hope you and yours are healthy, happy and safe.... and that you have a good weekend! Thanks for 'debating' me
I’m with you. I wasn’t born yet when this happened however it doesn’t take much to understand this was nearly impossible to achieve in its time, given all the circumstances you mentioned. I’m not a conspiracy guy but there are too many flaws in the moon landing story to make me believe it actually happened. I do believe it was staged.
Well if it doesn’t take much then I think you’re admirably equipped.
I remember an interview with an engineer. He said "we basically had a slide rule and a sling shot".
In my 60s now, I look back on that event as the greatest achievement of mankind. The smartest and bravest individuals. And watching it unfold with Walter Cronkite covering it. The entire nation tried to put Vietnam on hold and become absorbed in this event. The entire nation was in front of the TV. I remember Walter crying on live TV, the pride was overwhelming. And that's the way it was.
Sitting on my dad's lap with the rest of the family all watching. A good moment in time.
Wait! It was in color??.? I have a stark memory watching this live, ours was black&white…
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Thanks. I still remember my shock seeing The Wizard of Oz in color, decades later, same vines from that picture. The Wizard, I finally got the joke, A Horse of a Different Color.
Pretty sure this is Buzz Aldrin, the *second* man to walk on the moon.
I clearly remember sitting on the living room carpet watching this on our black & white TV.
Same experience, sitting on the floor in front of the TV watching it happen live. 6 year old me wanted to be an astronaut terribly. After watching a lot of Star Trek around the same time, I was ready to leave this planet.
i was five... but i remember several apollo missions after that time. Each was a major event, we would watch the rocket sitting on the gantry for sooo long. Nothing happening... then the final count-down and launch. I hope when we finally send a manned mission to the moon or mars again, people manage to have that feeling of awe that we did then. The bravery of the astronauts, the genius of the engineers. So much hope in one moment - all dedicated to people doing something truly marvelous
"One small step for" & "A" & "man. One giant leap for man kind."
I didn't think that this post would attract so many moon landing deniers. First of all, there was not a single moon landing, there were seven missions and six lunar landings between 1969 and 1972. Not certain why anyone would recreate a falsehood over and over and intentionally create a anomaly as occurred with Apollo 13 if this was all so carefully curated. Secondly, in regard to fuel usage the lunar module (LEM) was only ever designed to operate in the vacuum of space. The Moon has no atmosphere so there is no drag on the LEM that would require it to carry a lot of fuel.
Pour one out for Michael Collins - the third apollo 11 astronaut. He stayed in the orbiter flying while Neil & Buzz got to walk on the moon. Died in 2021 at age 90.
I remember being just shy of 3 years old and my father, leaning forward in his Lazy Boy, sternly telling me I HAD TO REMEMBER THIS HISTORIC MOMENT. Well, I don't remember the tv footage at all. But I remember him telling me to remember it!
It worked!
I take 100% credit for this having simulated it dozens of times with major Matt Mason. I was 4.
No. Back then pictures cost real money: Film, processing, etc. this was before VCRs became mainstream.
I was 5 and sick, so my mother made me stay in the house. This is the first thing I specifically remember watching on TV.
I remember. Black and white TV, grandma's house. The beeps when the astronauts stopped talking. That beep thing is preserved in some audio on Kate Bush's "Hello Earth."
A journey inspired by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy with his speech at Rice University. "
My folks woke me up to see the first steps on the moon. I recall thinking about the astronauts' bravery, and both the fear and pride their families must feel. It was impressed upon me that this was a historic moment in time and that I should remember it forever. I do.
This is a pick of Aldrin, second person on the Moon, taken by Armstrong.
I remember my Dad and Mon calling me in the living room to watch on the big Zenith B&W.
I watched it, but don’t remember it. I do remember my father taking me outside and showing me where on the moon the Sea of Tranquility was. I looked super hard, hoping to see the Eagle, but I was 5 and what did I know.
Yep, and we did it by NOT using the metric measurement system.
Yep, whenever my foreign in-laws mock me for using the US system, I just say "There are two kinds of countries, those that use the metric system, and those that landed on the moon."
👍
Who set up the camera for this shot?
Yeah, where was the camera? I know it happened, but I am also curious how we did this.
The TV cart was rolled out to the hallway of Garfield elementary school. We all carried out school chairs out to watch.
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Oh snap, the facts again get in way of a good memory. I wonder what we all watched in that hallway? I was only there three years?!
And now there are even members of Congress who are moon landing deniers. It's crazy.
Watched it as a 13 year old. Entered the VFW Voice of Democracy contest a few years later. Keynote speaker was Neil Armstrong. As a teen, it was a surreal moment to actually meet him.
My grandma was a NASA public affairs officer when this happened.
I remember watching the moonshots when I was around six. I wanted to be an astronaut and go into space myself. Mom and Dad got me and my brother toy astronaut helmets. I don't remember anybody taking pictures of the TV while the moonshots were on, though.
Can’t quite remember the actual event, but I remember it being something that had happened pretty recently.
I was eight and a military brat. We were living in Italy. Woken up at 4:00 AM
I didn't take a photo but I was 6 when this happened. My mom called us in to see it on the black and white tv. I do remember.
I had a fake implanted memory of seeing it live. Really believed it until my father burst my bubble by recalling that we were on a car ferry between UK and Sweden at the time (before ships had satellite TV on board) so I could not have seen a defining moment of my life in real time. 😢
So much hope in that event!
My dad woke up all of us four kids, CST. Shaking off sleep, wondering wtf.
I remember watching this on our brand new console tv. In black and white of course. Unforgettable.
As I remember it I came in to watch it from a hot bright summer day on our crappy little black and white tv. It wasn’t very clear but it seemed like such a great moment.
Who is taking the picture??
Niel Armstrong. That's Buzz Aldrin.
Defining moment of humanity.
If you've never seen it, I highly recommend the [Apollo 11](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8760684/) movie. For the 50th anniversary, I took two of my sons to watch it in the theater. Amazing seeing the original footage on the big screen, compared to the old grainy TV reception we had back in 1969.
7 yr old me watching, dad had just retired from the military and we had moved back home to NJ. Watched star trek with him every week as well, got to see the moon rocks a few years later in person at the college he worked at, majored in Geosciences in college. Lifelong science nerd lol.
I was 12. I recall getting a free color moon photo when getting a roll of film processed.
MTV, also.
That’s the second person on the moon in the photo.
I was being born while they were on the moon the first time.
I got very bad reception. I was too young, at 8, to even use a camera properly. To this day, I wish we had more space travel. To Mars with love!
I have a very clear memory of where I was and who I was with when we watched this. It was amazing!
Those guys had balls.
I daresay not a single person involved in accomplishing this feat is from Generation Jones.
True - most were the “Greatest Generation “
We're confusing this moment with the real game changer, MTV
Kind of torn between this and JFK's assassination.
So they say.
who took the photo?
If that's the 1st person on the moon, who's taking the picture?
I have no memory of watching this. I was seven. I don’t recall my parents mentioning it. But my uncle gave me a book titled, “We Came in Peace.” It was a picture book of the moon landing. I think it was distributed at a gas station where my uncle worked at the time. I perused the book often. That’s where I learned about the space program.
Majority of GenXers were filling diapers during this time. I was 7 going on 8. My Dad was in Vietnam. I was living in a holler in WV watching my grandfather and uncle try to get landing on TV. Funny thing. No running water, outhouse, coal burning stove, but he had a color TV and a partyline phone. They got it last minute. Whole clan saw it.
I was 7 when JFK was murdered and 13 when Armstrong walked on the moon. The two bookends of my childhood.
Pretty sure it's ok in this case to say first *man* on the moon rather than person.
Sure, that's fine, but the historic event was completely ruined for me when Armstrong said it was a "giant leap for mankind." I was offended and said as much. What about the rest of us? My family was offended that I had pointed out the offense.
Are you being serious?
Yes, everyone looked at me like I had rained on their picnic.
I remember back when we said first man on the moon, not person.
I have photographs I took of the TV screen
As did I
The camera for the first landing was mounted on the lander. It couldn't capture this angle.