"Apollo 11 Landing - Where were you?" Topic

50 years ago today, man landed on the moon. I was a 18 year old Coast Guard Academy Swab (freshman). Watched the landing on a tiny B&W TV while on duty on the main deck of the USCG Barque Eagle. We were moored in New York City.

Playing Hearts at my buddy's house with another friend and my buddy's Mom, and counting the days until I would get my driver's license!

Passed out in a bar in Chinatown.

My family was living in The Netherlands, just outside Amsterdam. I just barely remember my parents bringing me out into a room with a bunch of people to watch it on TV.

Weston Massachusetts just outside of Boston. My family was there for a year while my professor father was researching the United Empire Loyalists before returning to Canada.

In front of ny family tv in Denver,Co . With a esso paper lunar lander model, slowly lower as they got closer to the surface.

At my parents house in central Massachusetts (I was 9 at the time.)

Home from work, on the couch, drinking some Coors, eating pepperoni slices, cheese, and pickled herring, and watching TV.

Sweating bullets at home in Baltimore as my family watched it all on our 17" console b&w tv. It was hot as hell. I was 12.

I had 2 of those cardstock models. They were really well made.

It was so hot the tv went up. We could sort of see, but could clearly hear what was happening.

We had to take the back off the tv the next day to try to figure out the problem. We had a diagnostic spin wheel card. We'd turn it until the problem matched what was in the little window. It told you which tv tubes to test. We'd take the tubes to the Reads Drug Store to plug them into the tester they had near the front. We'd buy the needed replacements and come home and plug them all back in and hope for the best. If that didnt work, we had to go back to the spin wheel and try it all again. If that failed, we had to call the repairman. No chocolate milk that week.

Ah, memories.

Now when the tv goes up you go buy a new one. When they deliver it, they haul the old one away. I kinda miss the old way. Surprisingly, it often worked.

Go figure.

At my home watching the live feed from the moon when Neil Armstrong took his first step. I had just graduated high school in June. IFRC the walk came on after midnight EST in the USA.

At home in Phoenix Arizona happy that I got to stay up late to watch the landing. I was 9 at the time and fascinated with the whole space thing.

Watching it at home in Upminster, Essex, with my parents and siblings. It was early morning when the 'first step' was made, and the picture quality on our monochrome 405-line TV was pretty awful.

At home with my family in San Antonio, TX, while on leave from my ship in Pearl Harbor (USN).

Hi Bob – at that time I was living in Hornchurch and had a few mates in Upminster (which was the posh part of the borough then – at least parts of it were).

I wasn't at home at the time though, it was the end of my 1st year at Uni and I went bumming around Europe with three pals.

I'm not sure exactly where we were when they landed but we were in a big truck coming over the Grand St Bernard when they arrived back. I remember the driver taking both hands off the wheel and clapping them over his head a few times when 'splashdown' came over the radio.

Doing about 120kph with a 400m drop right next to me when he did that trick cured the constipation I'd had for the previous three days.

FB Blaze in the ‘Nam
Hooked up,my Sony radio to SOMEoverhead commo WIREjust as they were about to land. APC SNAGGED THE WIRE AND DOWN THE ROAD WENT MY RADIO

I was about 15 months old, so probably drooling and peeing my diaper.

At home with parents, brothers, and guests watching it on TV. And doing the same when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. Still remember it to this day.

Jim

I was three so most likely in bed but if I were up I was wishing cartoons were on instead.

Freshman at Temple University. Watched it at home.

I was fast approaching my fifth birthday, and certainly excited about that. But I was old enough to know Something Big was going on, as I was already in the "I wanna be an astronaut or a fireman" phase. I do remember watching the landing, but whether that was a memory of the event itself or merely a rebroadcast sometime later, I couldn't tell you. But it stuck in the head as being the real thing, which is something that my parents would have had me watching.

I was 8. My parents woke us up to watch Neil Armstrong step off the lander….

I was sat in my parents lounge, wishing the BBC commentator wouldn't keep talking, as I wanted to hear the Astronauts and MishCon talking!

I was at home in Hawkwell Essex and watched it with the whole family. I was 8 at the time.

Our family watched the launch at the Cape, and then dad hurried us all back to Huntsville, AL to watch the landing at home on our huge 19 inch color TV. I was 15 at the time.

I was 2 and playing with a fire truck. My mom made me watch!

Only 14 at that time I managed to get an invitation to watch the TV in one TVset available. There were only few hundrends of them in town (Athens, GREECE). Space science was essential at this time, so, I presume that it played some role to study among others Planet geology and fuels sciences!

Three years away from being born

Camping in the Adirondacks. We listened to it on the radio.

Driving home from Niagara Falls. The radio was playing "the war of the worlds" I was 10 at the time and thought it was real for about the first half…

In the fetal position.

At home watching with the family.

I don't recall. I was around four so I am sure I was watching with my dad. My wife remembers her mom running around waving a flag and cheering after making her watch the show on TV. We were too young to realize the impact of the event at the time.

Age 15 with my High School Girlfriends Family. The whole family was glued to the TV.

Age 17 watching the family B&W TV in the living room. I was glad it had not happened the previous day as I was working part time as a stock boy in a Sears store (yes, there were still stock rooms in those days and they had lots of stuff in them).

Junior High School

Old Bridge, New Jersey

Duck

Remember the landing was around 11PM EDT so I was watching from bed alongside my girlfriend. I have many pleasant memories from that night Oh to be 21 once again

I was gestating inside a human host.

A lot of younger gamers on here. Am I really that old!!

Must have missed the actual landing, based upon the time listed, but did hear about it on the car radio in the afternoon of the following day, I guess (Sunday, apparently), while driving back with my parents on the Beltway, outside of D.C.. I was just shy of 9 years old.

Did watch the replay of it that evening, on the black and white TV. A bit hard to tell what was going on via a lot of the footage angles, but still quite exciting, back in the day.

In U.S. Army basic training at Ft. Dix, NJ.

El Paso Texas, 9 years old glued to the TV. Was awesome. That night my Dad & I went out in the backyard, looked up at the moon and just realized how cool that moment was.

I watched it on TV with my family. Very memorable, and all the recent TV shows have brought it all back.

Same as PzGeneral
I was 8. My parents woke us up to watch Neil Armstrong step off the lander…. On vacation in Maine somewhere.

6 y/o at the time. Likely at home w/the family or on vaycay with them

I was 19 months old and my mom woke me up and plopped me down in front of the TV with my 4 year old sister. I don't remember anything about it, but I did see it.

In front of our family TV, age 9 (me, not the TV) at 1332B Jupiter Street, on Redstone Arsenal, AL.

Just finishing work at a deli on the east side of NYC. I was 20. Hey emckinney, which Chinatown?

Age 11, on holiday in a chalet site in Norfolk, but fortunately there was a telly. Dad had the job of monitoring it all night and getting us out of bed in time for the crucial bit.

I was 12 and glued to the TV for the whole mission. Kept wishing we could have gone to the Cape for the launch. In Winter Haven FL at my grandfathers house.

Outside on a hot summer night in the Rockies, playing some game with my cousins and neighbors (football or soccer, most likely), while the older generation drank and ate and talked on the patio. Then someone came out of the house and announced "they're about to land on the moon!" and we all went into the family room / tv room and watched for a while, before returning to our outdoor activities.