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I was six when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. We were visiting my grandparents in Oulton Broad at the time and despite it being stupid o'clock in the morning my Dad came and got me and my four year old brother out of bed so we could watch it on TV. It's almost my earliest memory, beaten only by getting my first bike one Christmas. The "space age" was a great time to be a kid.
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Ah yes, somehow the Edward Herbert Building at Loughborough University (of Technology) was opened up that night so that students like me could watch the moon landing on the one big TV on the campus.
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I was 24, I watched the moon landing on a Phillips Portable TV on a boat in the local Yacht harbour.
It was a Sunday most of us were going on vacation the next day, but with all the delays the final touch down 04:00 local time. Most of us went to bed afterwards. |
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Well, I was 21 at the time, and I have a definite memory of seeing it on TV. Not impossible, but sadly the memory is not backed up with any corroborative evidence, like what else I was doing around the time, so I suspect that my memory has been "boosted" by subsequently seeing replays. The pictures were pretty fuzzy, whatever.
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I was 15, watched a bit, got bored and went to bed, watched it on the news next day. My teenage head was full of science fiction books with daredevil heroes flying armed spaceships around the stars. Getting to the moon seemed trivial to me at the time %-)
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I was six and don't remember a thing!!!
I was probably playing in the garden all day and then went to bed! But I did enjoy watching Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Lost In Space, The Jetsons etc! |
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Watched it at school, later that day I presume, in a darkened room on one of those big tellies in a cupboard on wheels. I think I thought it was live and wasn't aware how many people had watched it in the early hours. My parents only rented a TV for the winter months on the basis that we should be outside playing all summer, so watching at home wasn't an option.
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I was 15, so stayed up to watch. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, I fell asleep at some point and missed seeing "one small step" live :(
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I was 7 at the time and do remember it. Whilst my mum stayed up to watch the landing my brother and I had to wait till the next day. Mum encouraged us to follow it though. I remember watching James Burke and Patrick Moore too. I'm sure I didn't understand much of what they said but having learned about constellations and light years etc from my brother, I had to pretend! So glad I lived through that period actually. Astonishing times.
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Ah yes - ish. I was 7 at the time and whilst having some very vivid early memories, my ones of this are rather murky - like the TV footage - and could have been overlaid by the later landings and repeats. I'm sure we watched the landing, as I remember 'processing' the rapid-fire information on the altitude on the descent and getting excited on hearing the sub-100ft readings. I also have a vivid memory of trying to interpret the grainy and ghost-like pictures during the moonwalk, not quite understanding why the horizon seemed to show through the figures moving around. I can't imagine that I could have stayed awake for the "one small step" but the moonwalk lasted into the morning, so that's probably when I saw it. Amazing times, and great to see James Burke still knocking around and appearing on recent programmes. He put across a great sense of enthusiasm with Patrick Moore at the time.
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I lived in Montreal then, and I'd spent a couple of days with a friend in Ogunquit, Maine. I came home with a bad sunburn on my back and the back of my legs. I remember watching the moon walk lying on my stomach with my head propped up to see the black and white tv, and thinking that I was so lucky to see this happening in my lifetime.
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