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Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:40:36 GMT

How the Apollo 11 Moon landing was achieved with the vital help of Carnarvon Tracking Station

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-14/the-vital-role-played-by-carnarvon-in-the-apollo-11-moon-landing/11261800

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:51:21 GMT

Reg Lindsay - Armstrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-1VtFKiBzo

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:52:58 GMT

The Police - Walking On The Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwMdZOlPo8

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:54:24 GMT

First Moon Landing 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:57:13 GMT

David Bowie – Space Oddity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

brerrabbit585 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:45:05 GMT

It sounds like you're a bit moonstruck.

I remember having the day off school so we could all watch it on TV. I don't remember being all that excited about it.

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

not_for_sale — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 03:33:57 GMT

Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcqHA7dbwM

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

lyndal1838 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 06:10:46 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:

I remember having the day off school so we could all watch it on TV. I don't remember being all that excited about it.

I had just moved from Canberra to Sydney with a 7 week old baby.

I doubt that she was very impressed at being made to sit on my knee and told to watch the TV to see history being made.

While she does not remember it I noticed her telling people she was old enough to have seen the first man land on the moon.

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

joztamps — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:15:18 GMT

All the pubs within about 2km of Melbourne Uni reckoned it was the best day ever.

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

springyzone — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:10:58 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
It sounds like you're a bit moonstruck.

I remember having the day off school so we could all watch it on TV. I don't remember being all that excited about it.

I wish we had. I was quite keen to watch it but went to school. I suppose all the teachers were keen too because we were all taken to the canteen area and had to sit on benches for hours watching TV. The screens were nowhere the size of today's ones and they were in black & white. There were only about 3 small TV's in the canteen.

I remember it took ages. I think something got delayed and it didn't all happen till after lunch time (I think). I wish i had stayed home, I would have had a closer view.

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

brerrabbit585 — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:49:56 GMT

The thing I remember most about the day was that my brother brought his best friend home with him (we lived just around the corner from the school) and the two of them continually tied and untied slip knots in my french knitting and by the end of the day it was three times as long as it started. It was fun watching them, probably more so than the moon landing.

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

not_for_sale — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:08:12 GMT

Re: Apollo 11 Moon landing

davidc4430 — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:52:02 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
It sounds like you're a bit moonstruck.

I remember having the day off school so we could all watch it on TV. I don't remember being all that excited about it.

i vaugly remember the weeks leading up to the moon landing reading the front page information in the daily paper (wish id saved it all now)

the endless diagrams of how it was planned to go.

then watching the B/W TV of the launch and then the landing.

i was 9

funny but no one ever thought they wouldn't do it and get back