50th Anniversary of the Moon landing

[Nanto2girls]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

I can remember this as if it was yesterday.

[Sunshine]

I remember the moon landing too. My dad and me watched it late at night and all the rest of the family were asleep in bed. I’m not sure what was more special to me at the time, watching the moon landing or having my dad all to myself. I was 15 years old.

[Gemini]

I was 15 too Sunshine. Exciting times!

[Clover]

My DS 1 had been born in the April of that year so I was somewhat preoccupied. Obviously we had chosen his name before the moon landing and it was just coincidence that we had given him the same Christian name as that of the first man to set foot on the moon.For a few years people assumed we had named him after Neil Armstrong.

[Nanto2girls]

I was 18,and i had a month old baby to feed, so i was up.
Hubby was at work on the night shift.
They saw it though on the tv in the canteen.

[Sunshine]

It seems crazy that the technology for filming the moon landing was less sophisticated than the technology we have today in our mobile phones.

[Plantaholic]

I was working in the local school and all the children were brought into the hall to view it.

[WeeGranny]

I have to admit that I can not remember where I was. I was teaching then but would have been on holiday so no excuse.

[Daisy]

I remember OH, me and my Mum sitting up nearly all night peering at the flickering black and white pictures on our tiny tv, marvelling at both the fact of man stepping on the moon, but that fact that we were watching it as it happened.

I think tv satellites were very new technology at the time, and if it had happened a year or so earlier we wouldn't have had the technology to watch it live!