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20/07/2015 7:01 pm
Were were you on July 20, 1969? I was watching on TV at my...
... girlfriend's home with her parents in Detroit.
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21/07/2015 12:10 am
I was 4 days from my 13th birthday, at home & watching the landing...it was awesome!
21/07/2015 12:30 am
I was going on to my junior year in high school and was was watching on with pride and amazement with family members, including my Grandmother, who was born a few years before the Wright Brothers first flew at Kittyhawk. Unbelievable what 66 years of progress can do.
And now it has been 43 years (!) since we have been back ..... and it supposedly could be 15 - 20 years or so (!) until we MAY be back. Something went _very_ wrong since then, even though what the astronauts saw and discovered on the Moon was (and will be) world-changing.
Let's get BACK to the Moon and on to Mars .......
21/07/2015 1:19 am
I was an airman at Defense Language Institute at Lackland AFB, San Antonio...
All training at the base was cancelled and everyone was glued to television sets.
21/07/2015 2:14 am
I got to stay up late and watch it at home.
Saint Clair Shores, Michigan
21/07/2015 3:30 am
In Germany courtesy of the USAF.
21/07/2015 4:02 am
Brian, I also got to stay up late...of course I was 29 years oldat the time.
21/07/2015 7:09 am
I was working at a summer job at the NJ beach during college summer break.
21/07/2015 7:22 am
I was a Navy Ensign and had just arrived at the
Naval Communication Station on Okinawa. I watched the moon landing on a TV in the Officer's Club at the nearby Marine Corps Air Facility.
21/07/2015 12:17 pm
12 years old .. at home - family watching TV
21/07/2015 12:47 pm
How ironic, Marlowe. I was watching on TV at my girlfriend's home with her parents in Philadelphia. We married in October of that same year.
21/07/2015 2:34 pm
Glued to the tv! I was a sophmore in h.s. I'd been interested in the USAs space program since Mercury launchings! And building all the models I could get my hands on! Did anyone else have the Mercury launch pad model? Or the Gemini capsule... or the Apollo craft with the Landing module?
How bout Star Treks Enterprise? The saucer from 'The Invaders'? What great modeling times the '60s were.
21/07/2015 3:20 pm
Coming home for lunch at Misawa AB, Japan.
21/07/2015 6:34 pm
I was an Airman in the "Third Herd" (3rd Mobile Comm Gp) at Tinker AFB, OK and married 17 days!