I was a teenager when the Eagle landed. My grandmother, who lived about a mile away had a color TV, so i walked to her house to watch. One by one, other family members and relatives came by. Grandma's TV was in her dining room. Eating was the main activity of her family. We watched the moon landing together in grandma's dining room and ate fried chicken wings. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Frank. I was eight years old at the time. > > I remember watching it on an old B&W set as well. It was a Packard-Bell > 19", we didn't have color TV yet. We changed the channels with a pair of > pliers. I recall my Dad telling us kids to sit down and be quiet because > this was important. > > I love(d) the space program as well. It was the coolest thing going. It is > amazing we made it there on what now looks like antique hardware. It is > amazing how many people I run in to that do not believe it. > > Some of those additional shots of the mission were interesting too. > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: OT: 37 Year Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing > >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:57:10 -0400 > > > >On 7/20/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/19jul_seaoftranquillity.htm > > > > > > > > > Tom C. > > > >Tom, > > > >Thanks for that link. It was spooky reading it, "hearing" phrases > >that (I didn't realize) were etched in my memory. > > > >"Houston, Tranquility Base Here; the Eagle has Landed." We broke > >into cheers when we heard that one. > > > >"That was one small step step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." > >I told my father that was pretty good thinking, then he told me he was > >pretty sure that Neil had made it up ahead of time. <g> > > > >I was 12 years old, and it seemed that we'd spent the whole summer in > >front of our TV, a little black and white "portable" job. We didn't > >have cable yet, the picture was fuzzy (which was okay, because the > >broadcasts from the moon were pretty fuzzy anyway, and even then, I > >liked fuzzy <g>), but the whole family sat in front of that little TV > >in our playroom, watching intently. > > > >What now amazes me about that whole mission is the fact that it > >actually got there and back. Some four or five years ago, I read that > >all those banks of computers with the flashing lights and winding > >spools of magnetic tape had less power than the average desktop - and > >that was 5 years ago! > > > >After spending the summer of 68 watching American cities burn, it was > >uplifting and inspiring to see mankind striving successfully for > >peace. These guys were my childhood heroes, the Mercury and Gemini > >astronauts, and landing on the moon was the culmination of that. > > > >Of course we didn't realize at the time it was all an elaborate hoax, > >filmed on a Hollywood backlot. <LOL> > > > >For our generation, where you were when we landed on the moon was one > >of those things "we never forgot" (just like where we were when we > >heard about JFK's assassination ). > > > >Thanks for that link, Tom! > > > >cheers, > >frank > >-- > >"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > > >-- > >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >[email protected] > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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