On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.
He was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon
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I was camping in Long Sioux at the time and we were listening intently to the broadcast ........it was riveting at the time.........& the whole camp site was dead quiet ------------until the 'Eagle had Landed" and only then did the whole area awaken again.........with a loud cheer througout the site.
I was at home in Verdun on Beurling Avenue watching it live on TV. Would not have missed it for anything....WELL almost anything. It was just great, and was glad I got a chance to see it....
Thanks Winston.............and being in Verdun at that moment has to be pretty cool indeed for what amounts to a World & Life Changing Event..................thank you for your input. HF&RV
Apparently Winston ,only you & I actually saw this event,.....I wonder if anyone else knows that man has been to the moon & back yet ?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hahahahahaha HF&RV
Well Les. Maybe they are all believers that it was really a Hollywood stunt, and they may even be members of the flat earth society!!!!!
Hey Winnie and Les, You weren't the only ones watching...I was living on 41st ave in Lasalle at that time. Sure was a long time ago!
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Thanks for the input Cookie,......are you in that unpronouceable Mexican town now ? Or is that a Winter time trip ? ( it was you right,that vacations down mexico way ?)
.......................and do you look up Smokey Joe's Cafe...................lol
I was a teenager in Toronto at the time of the moon landing. I recall driving my girlfriend home at the perhaps 3:00 a.m. and all the apartment lights were on all over the city like it was 8:00 pm. This must have been one of the most viewed events on TV....at that time anyway.
Hi Les, Yes, Mexico is the usual, but it's time to go elsewhere. Never heard of Smokey Joe's Cafe.
I recall in 1961 when the first space shuttle took off....I was in Bermuda when they interviewed a few Photographers from Miami who took photos of the launch.....now that's really going back in time.
You were probably much too young to remember that!!?? LOL
"Sadly" NO...................hahahahah
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