45 years ago : "One giant leap for mankind"

[B52STRATO]

On 20th July 1969, the Eagle module landed on the Moon at 20.18UTC, six hours later Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on our natural satellite.

 

 

Edited July 20, 2014 by B52STRATO

[krfrge]

I was 6 when this occured. I remember it took them 3 days to get there.

It is so interesting to see what they accomplished and what we would now consider truly "austere" conditions and capabilties.

[+pcpilot]

I was 12. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, watched it on TV. The US was so proud. I remember walking out that night and looking up at the moon and thinking that men were actually up there, walking on it. Absolutely awesome!

 

On a side note...the local Phillips 66 gas station started giving out little cardboard cutouts of the lander to kids. I must have had a dozen of them.

 

Whoops, apparently it was the gulf gas station. It was 45 years ago...lol.

 

http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_real.html

 

Just a little ways down from the top.

 

http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/39852/Lunar-Lander-1969-Gas-Station-freebie

Edited July 20, 2014 by pcpilot

[B52STRATO]

I just have realized that, like many others, I forgot to pay tribute to Michael Collins, remained in the CSM-107 Columbia module.

 

pcpilot: thank for your links, I just start one of their Martin "Sprint" anti-ballistic missile paper model tonight !

[Capitaine Vengeur]

Everyone mature enough remembers where he/she was when this news was released. Thus, a university teacher of mine, specialist of the Middle East, told us that at that time, he was part of a geographic mission in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, far away from the civilization and Hertzian waves-covered areas, and that he could have missed the event. The mission was scheduled to spend that night in a godforsaken village of mountaineers. When arriving at dusk, they found nobody outside, which after the guide was unusual. They soon discovered that each family was at home near its transistor, listening at that incredible news that Yankee astronauts were about to land on the Moon; some believed it a hoax. Down to the last hole in Zagros, this was really a planetary live event.