@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:Forty-five years ago today, Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder
onto the surface of the moon . . . and muffed his lines.
My Aunt and i were sitting in the living room, watching the television,
and i kept look out the doors to the balcony to look at the moon.
My Aunt said she didn't believe it, that it was all being faked.
What are your recollections?
Thanks for posting the thread, Setanta.
I m ashamed to admit that I forgot the anniversary.
I had stayed home from work to see the take off on Wed., July 16.
I watched the approach and the landing on my TV in my den,
with my mother. It blew our minds. We were
THRILLED.
In addition to seeing it as the huge achievement that it was for Man,
we were also thrilled that
WE safely landed in the Sea of Tranquility
before the damned communists, who landed their robot,
un-manned ship,
crashing it, a few days later, into the Sea of Crises.
It was a very embarrassing failure for communist slavery,
in the middle of the 3rd World War:
July 2O, 1969.
I remember President Richard M. Nixon calling the astronauts
from the Oval Office in the White House.
In my youth, I simply did not know what was up there
in terms of habitable planets in this solar system.
As a result of the knowledge that we 've acquired
from the Space Program's explorations, when I look up
at night to a clear sky, I know that I am at
my favorite place
in the Universe, that if I were anywhere else, then
I 'd be planning on getting back exactly here.
David