> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tom C > > http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- > nasa/2006/19jul_seaoftranquillity/ > > Short entertaining story of the first manned lunar landing. I remember > watching it live when I was 8 years old. My Dad telling the kids to sit > down and be quiet because this was important. > > It simply amazes me that 1) the original video tapes were lost and 2) > Buzz Aldrin did not take the camera and get an image of Neil Armstrong > on the lunar surface. All the still image photography was done by Neil > Armstrong of Buzz Aldrin. >
I was 12. The moon landing was the evening before my mother's 40th birthday. I had to really argue and throw tantrums to be allowed to watch the landing on TV - with hindsight I expect my parents had other things on their mind, but nevertheless we (their children) got to watch it. I couldn't really figure out what I seeing though, the quality of the pictures was so poor that I couldn't decipher them, so it was a bit disappointing. Not that I would have admitted it, after making such a fuss to see it. A few years later my father, who was an RAF officer, came home from work and told us that he'd met Buzz Aldrin that day, and gave us a picture which Aldrin had signed. I don't know who has that picture now. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
