That's right...that is today. My mom has told me countless times how she was very pregnant with me, in the middle of the Texas summer, with no air conditioning, sweating to death, and watching the moon landing news stories on TV. I missed seeing it by 2 1/2 months! :o)
I was only eight but I am more amazed today understanding what a task this was than at the time!Cudos to all those amazing people that helped in accomplishing this feat! I`m happy that your are a product of the sixties also Laurie.
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While we were on vacation two weeks ago we stopped in Houston at the Johnson Space Center and toured the historic Mission Control center...wow. That was really amazing. To think they landed a craft on the moon, while in their control room they sent messages to and from each other in different departments around the facility via the same technology we use at the drive thru banks (those little tubes and containers)! LOL It's quite a tour; if anyone gets a chance to go while in the Houston area, it's worth it!
It is a real eye opener when you recall just how little in the way of technology was available to them. I remember watching the landing on a black & white TV (all we had). I was awestruck. I feel the same way when I look at the images that Cassini is sending back from Saturn, and when I think of Voyager, now out past Pluto, on it's way to the stars.
It is a real eye opener when you recall just how little in the way of technology was available to them. I remember watching the landing on a black & white TV (all we had). I was awestruck. I feel the same way when I look at the images that Cassini is sending back from Saturn, and when I think of Voyager, now out past Pluto, on it's way to the stars.
I watched it on TV live and was preoccupied with the knowledge that in one week I was to be drafted and ultimately sent to Viet Nam. At that young age I just thrived on SF and our missions into space made it all so real. We had a little 13 inch black and white TV that was so great and clear. Amazing how times have changed our possessions and our outlook on everything. In those days almost no one knew any facts about space. At least anyone I knew.
I also watched the moonwalk on TV. I had been married one year and was two months away from being drafted into the Army out of graduate school. What a time!! And to think that some people today have dared to call the moonwalk a hoax?!?
It is a real eye opener when you recall just how little in the way of technology was available to them. I remember watching the landing on a black & white TV (all we had).
Waahhhh! "Someplace" I have one or more photo of that, shot off the TV at my neighbor's house. Hopefully someday I'll find it and scan it.
