That’s 55 years ago, so there are probably a couple here who were just a twinkle in their daddy’s eye.
On that date, most Americans (and many others) were watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. It was a huge milestone in the “space race”, a milestone in live television, and the first telephone call between the moon and planet Earth. Remember JFK’s speech in 1961?
Now it is time to take longer strides,” he exhorted, “time for a great new American enterprise . . . . I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
At the time he gave this speech before Congress in 1961, NASA was not yet three years old. Six years later, we were there. Considering the state of technology at the time, it was a bloody miracle!
“one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Neil Armstrong leads Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins out of the space centre on the Apollo 11 space mission to the moon. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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I think I was on Midway Island and we didn’t get much TV. I am not sure weever got the news.
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I traveled over one-thousand miles to Cape Canaveral, Florida and watched Apollo 11 lift off. Spectacular to hear and view, then made it back home to watch them walk on the moon on television. Wonderful memory.
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I was either rehearsing or performing in “Annie Get Your Gun” in a base production. Being a kid I’m sure I wasn’t paying attention at all.
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I didn’t know you were so talented!
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Oh hell no. I was a saloon dancer/Indian maiden/back up singer to “Annie.” It was a fkn disaster – but I’ll tell ya, to this day I know every word to “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”
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You wouldn’t believe some of the pictures she posts over on one of the social media platforms! High school plays, marching band, Halloween parties! Miss Wee was everywhere!
😉
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” Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
But still you wouldn’t change it for a sack of gold
Let’s go on with the show! “
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She had such a powerful voice. Like Kate Smith.
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That’s impressive.
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I watched it while we were in K-Mart that evening. I stood in the TV department watching.
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My father had the TV on all the time, and we watched everything. He was born around the time of the Wright Brothers flight so barnstormers were part of his life, he worked for an airline from the early 1940’s until he died. Flying to the moon was a natural evolution. And we were right there with him.
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I was just over a year old at the time, but my sister, 10 years older than me, remembers watching it on TV.
Today, I have “arguments” on FB with people convinced it was all faked. Bizarre.
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You are about the same age as my daughter! We spent the day at my husband’s uncle’s house, and watched the landing on their black and white tv.
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I can’t be the only one who remembers the later flight and moonwalks when the astronaut pointed the camera at the sun and burned it out. NASA had a the astronauts carefully narrate the walks and actors in Houston dressed in space suits with all the props acted everything out for the TV cameras on earth.. That’s where the “faked” it became real.
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