Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
I'm surprised no-one has started this thread before me!
What were you doing on the evening of July 20th 1969?
That day was very special to me because my late first husband proposed to me and produced a beautiful sapphire engagement ring. We stayed up at my mum and dads house watching the moon landing and the stars were very bright that night I can tell you
So come on you lot, forget about politics and swine flu and all the other depressing things and think back to that night - where were you and what were you doing?
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
I just remember coming downstairs early in the morning to watch the moon landing. I dont remember if it was live or a repeated recording. I was 14 at the time....
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#3
I was ..cough.. -10 at the time..well no ok I give in... I was 21. But great romantic story there Jacqui. I dont have anything to match that but I just remember looking in at the black and white gogglebox ( 405 lines) with everyone else at Neil Armstrong. We all had long hair in those days...and that was just the fellas. All the girls had the Cathy McGowan front fringe...and we all rejoiced together in flairs!! Remember when footballers shorts use to be short short..what with long hair and them all kisssing each other after scoring it all got a bit errmmm.. worrying. The Football Assoc had to step in. Shorts got longer and the kissing stopped. Its true.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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#4
There was the wife and I and about a dozen others sat in my married quarter in Germany watching it on TV, as I remember quite late at night.
We sunk a few beers, had half chicken & chips each to eat and those on duty after were a bit wobbly and worn out. Oh yes and the wife gave me an ear bashing about the mess.
Hey but it was some achievement ( the moon landing not us on the beer) and will we see such again? It just makes you think about all the memories Henry Allingham must have had in his life time.
O yes and Paul there were some who never had long hair, well for me not after the 6th Sept 1964.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
I had recently started school and brought home a moon picture I had painted! I remember my Dad was decorating the living room. We had the TV in the middle of the floor and gathered around to watch it.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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#6
I was only two at the time but I remember it clearly...on the black and white DER television in our house on Crabble Hill, Mum, Dad, my two brothers Chris and Nick and our dear Grandad. Amazing. Wonderful memories.
Guest 668- Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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#7
Unborn :)
#8
I don't know specifically about the 20th July 1969 but I do know that approximately that sort of period I was "chemically mixed" into being
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
4am in the morning. I was two and half months old and told "Philip you will watch this" and propped in front of a tiny black and white glowing cathode tube. Quite right, as I can at least claim to have seen man's pinnacle achievement, even though I can't recall it.
The Apollo 11 footage is currently undergoing remastering to extract all video information, the results should be very interesting to see. Will we see a new landing in our lifetime though? It'd be a tragedy if in a generation or two's time our descendants will look back and think "did they really do that?".
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Just think, last millenium you could walk on the moon, fly to New York and watch the sun rise in the west, travel to France on a hovercraft in 21 minutes......
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#11
...on a commercial supersonic transport from Heathrow too....
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#12
Hmm. July 1969. I would have been coming up to my 21st Birthday in September.
I remember being being excited about it and stayed up to watch it - Science-fiction then became Science-Fact. I was on my own as Mum and Dad thought it a waste of time and money.
A fantastic feat, a truly giant step for mankind.
Will we get a man on mars or further afield ? no idea, but I think it would have to be paid for by more than one country, but that couldn't happen for quite some time.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#13
i WERE 12
and recall it but all a great feat
changed the way space is seen
Brian Dixon
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#14
18 at the time,
Alec Sheldon
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#15
I was 35 at the time and working on a small coaster running from London to Paris and v.v.. We didn't have TV on the ship so missed the big event.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
I remember avidly writing down all the conversations between the Apollo 11 crew and Houston in my scrapbook at the time, a great step forward ....