One small step

[redbird]

Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the face of the moon, the first humans to walk on another world.

I think I remember watching on TV at the time, but my childhood memories are fuzzy anyhow, and telling "watched it on TV at the time" from "watched the tapes on TV later" is more than I can produce. I'm old enough it's possible.

[This usericon is from a later Apollo mission, but I don't have a moon icon.]

Comments

[eftychia]

I remember watching it on television -- I think my parents had just gotten a colour television to watch the launch, because my memories of the animations of how the stage separations were supposed to look are in colour, though it didn't matter so much for the fuzzy live footage of the landing which I remember in black and white. (I also remember carrying around a transistor radio to listen for news updates about progress of the flight while Apollo astronauts were en route there and back, but that might be a memory of Apollo 13 after hearing there was trouble.) Or maybe it was that they got the BW television so we could watch history and my colour memories are from a later flight -- I'll ask my mother later.

The memories of Apollo 11 are fuzzy and fragmented due to what the passage of time does to a small child's memories, and fuzzier still because most are memories of fuzzy and ghost-laden television, but pretty darned powerful for all that. I was already fascinated by rockets, and outer space, by then, and I remember being disappointed that my small telescope wasn't powerful enough to see the lander on the moon from my front yard.

I so very much wanted to follow those astronauts up there someday.

[kylinn]

I remember being allowed to Stay Up Late in order to watch it live on our black and white tv. So long ago.

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