Man lands on the moon where were you

[olena]

My parents had only been married a year and I was 4 years from existence.

I would love to see more moon missions in my lifetime.....maybe even a Mars mission.

 

[legalsea]

What?

Just a small reference to Mark Twain. He was once asked by a reporter if he feared dying (Twain was getting on in years at the time). Twain replied "Certainly not. After all, I was dead for a few billion years before I was born. It was a snap and time flew by. I have no qualms about going back into that state for another couple hundred billion years." (paraphrased).

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I was only 2 so my guess snuggled on the couch with my Mom or Grandparents "watching" it on t.v.

 

[OK!]

I was....not alive yet. Geez, it feels nice to say that, since it feels like there are so few milestone events anymore for which I wasn't alive.

July 20 is my dad's birthday. He was dating my mom at the time; they got married on June 27, 1970, and I came along 2.5 years later.

 

[swandiverpatt]

I was 16 years old ... walking in a moonlit woods in Wisconsin with George Warren and received my first kiss. That's quite the nice memory.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Just a small reference to Mark Twain. He was once asked by a reporter if he feared dying (Twain was getting on in years at the time). Twain replied "Certainly not. After all, I was dead for a few billion years before I was born. It was a snap and time flew by. I have no qualms about going back into that state for another couple hundred billion years." (paraphrased).

Okay, thanks for the explanation.

 

[BalooTheBear]

I was 12 and I remember staying up to watch the landing and the first moon walk on our 12in color portable... Watching that set is probably why my eyes are so bad now...

 

[ToTLaugher]

I was only 3 but I was living in the Houston area at the time because my dad was one of the engineers at NASA. While I don't remember what all went on, you can be sure there was celebrating in my neighborhood - most people there were working at NASA.

 

[nhpooh]

I was 12 and I remember staying up to watch the landing and the first moon walk on our 12in color portable... Watching that set is probably why my eyes are so bad now...

Me too! We were camping and watched it on tv at my grandparents site, they had a tv in there camper we didn't.

 

[jimmalru80]

I was 11 years old and on vacation in Hyannis, MA. Earlier in the day, we had been to Plimoth Plantation and one of the Pilgrim characters ran into the building we were touring and announced that the astronauts had landed on the moon. (I guess it was OK for him to break out of character for that historic occasion). I remember watching the moon walk that night.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I was 10 months old but I know exactly where I was...in front of the TV in one of those old 1960's cloth and wire bouncy things.

My sister was two and a half and fondly remembers mommy and daddy MAKING her watch the TV. It was the first time she was ever MADE to watch TV so she recalls it being very important at the time.

I've heard the story a hundred times, so even though I don't have a direct memory, I have memories of her stories.

 

[minniecarousel]

I was a teenager and watched it at home in Oakland, CA with the family. We were very interested as Neil Armstrong was from Wapakoneta, Ohio, where an aunt, uncle and cousins lived. In fact, my cousin got the job sweeping out the drugstore when Neil gave up the job! (I assume when he went off to college; he's a few years older than my cousin.)

 

[Handbag Lady]

I was only 3 but I was living in the Houston area at the time because my dad was one of the engineers at NASA. While I don't remember what all went on, you can be sure there was celebrating in my neighborhood - most people there were working at NASA.

My husband was 8 when it happened, and he recalls great memories of his parents having a cocktail party. His dad worked for both Nasa and Martin/Murrietta at the time and they all had "space" friends. They all were focused on their TV and my husband can even recall conversations he overheard.

I think that's just very cool.

 

[Missy1961]

My brother-in-law's dad worked for Grummen in NY. So they probably were celebrating as well.

 

[browneyes106]

I wasn't born yet. My dad told me at the time he watched the moon landing at Army base where he is training at before he went to Vietnam. My mom was staying with relatives when it happened and she saw it at their house.

 

[bumbershoot]

My mom and her friends watched the landing in someone's flat in San Francisco, while they were celebrating the baby shower for my mom, with me in her belly. So that's where I was.

 

[travelbug]

I was at my aunt & uncle's lakefront cottage in South Dakota, watching it on a black and white TV with a room full of relatives. My family was on vacation out there at the time. I was a kid, but I remember it vividly.

 

[tazdev3225]

I was 2 weeks shy of my 13th birthday. I don't remember the actual landing but I remember staying up to watch them walk on the moon and being amazed at what I was seeing. I was also jealous of my baby brother. It was his 5th birthday on July 20, 1969. I remember thinking how cool it was that he would always have that as a birthday present.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

I was 2 years, 2 months and 5 days old. Ah, the good old days!

 

[DarthKTrava]

Not here yet. Almost a year too early.