Where Were You When The 1St Moon Landing Took Place?

EDDIE51 | 19:11 Mon 16th Sep 2013 | ChatterBank

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Further to to question about Voyager I have decided to ask this
'Where were you at the moment Apollo landed on the Moon?'
As I said, I was in Cambridge at a pub called The Mill by the river Cam, even the traffic stopped as the announcement came through.

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Matheous-2

I was in my mother-in-law to be s house watching it in B & W I was 24yrs old....married the following year - three beautiful children & divorced 1993.
Twenty years into my second marriage!.....
The Landing in my memory was some time after midnight in the UK -Wasn't it??

paddywak

As I said earlier I was at work when they landed but I arrived home just in time to see the walk.I was still living at home at the time and I was surprised 'cause mum and dad were still up glued to the T.V,same little PYE everybody had, with a plate of sandwiches and a kettle and the tea pot handy so they wouldn't miss anything.

DSJ

I was sitting in my lounge room at home in Australia with my two-year old son on my lap. I wanted him to be able to tell people in the future that he saw it 'live' on TV.

atalanta

In a youth hostel in Donegal, in the back of beyond. No television, so we all crowded round a radio.

ChillDoubt

It was my 4th birthday on the day they launched.

Dee Sa

sorry but it did not take place !

emmie

watching it on telly with the family

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Dee sa, no one who lived through that era would ever believe for a second the rubbish about it being faked. For a start the USSR were tracking it every inch of the way, it was a huge humiliation for them as previous to the Apollo program the USSR was way ahead in the space race. Any fakery would have been a huge political coup for them, you have to remember that USA and USSR were just hours away from full blown nuclear war at the time. They really hated to see the USA winning and would have stopped at nothing to uncover a plot.