37 years ago today, the first moonwalk

[swag]

Apollo 11

[XNASA]

1. "Good Luck, Mr. Gorski."

:patriot:

[Call Me Wesley]

6. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Richardo]

7. HA!

:patriot:

[Book Lover]

20. Tee-Hee!

[Jack from Charlotte]

28. And Armstrong blew is only line.....

He meant to say.... "Thats one small step for......A man.... and one giant leap for mankind."

The way he said it..."That's one small step for man..." makes no sense.

He finally admited he blew it. Said he thouight he DID say.... A man.

Never hire an avaitor to deliver a quaotable line.

[Vidar]

2. Back when everything seemed possible & the future was bright.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That bright and innocent time.......

I still remember it........

And all the roads we've been down since then.......

It was a miraculous thing to have seen!

Thank you for the lovely remembrance today, my dear swag.........

[Road Scholar]

38. I watched it with my little four year old girl. She still remembers

it.She's all grown up now, my fishing buddy, but she and I are still thick as maggots according to her mother.:toast: It really was an innocent time.

[WCGreen]

4. My sister was sick with a summer bout of bronchitis...

We brought the TV into her room and we all sat on her bed and watched...

[anarch]

5. funny, I thought the first time Jackson did that was sometime in the 80's

Also:

[The Sushi Bandit]

15. Thanks for making me laugh!

It was fuckin great!

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Dude, I've been trying to find that!

Also the one where EVERYBODY killed JFK.

But I haven't found a searchable database of 'em on the Onion site. You know of one?

[anarch]

35. meh, not really...I just poke around on google and sometimes get lucky

Here you go, though:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Sweet!

:yourock:

[QuettaKid]

36. WHEW ! ! !

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Elidor]

40. Now with AUDIO!

http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/

[jobycom]

8. Bull! THIS was the first moonwalk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oRlxxiqb1A&search=michael%20jackson%20billie%20jean

[progmom]

19. no, this was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtWpIePECg&search=michael%20jackson%20billie%20jean%20motown%2025

:D

[jobycom]

22. You are correct. I thought that's what I linked, but it wasn't. nt

[progmom]

32. it's one of my favorite Michael moments

:bounce:

[jobycom]

34. Yep. Everyone remembers what they were doing when they saw the moonwalk.

[Skittles]

9. I was 12 and in a foreign country

I was so proud of my country...it deeply saddens me to see what has become of America

[sarge43]

10. Trafalgar Square, 2am, thousands of people watching a huge

tv screen. An earth shaking cheer when the "Man on the Moon" was flashed on the screen. I was so proud of being an American; I was even more proud of being a human being. We can do marvelous things when we listen to our better angels.

Thanks for the reminder, swag.

[Fox Mulder]

11. Don't you know?

The moonwalk was filmed in a Hollywood studio.

[swag]

13. Oh, yeah. Like Capricorn 1.

O.J. was so good in that!

[swimboy]

12. Mom and Dad let us stay up and watch it

:thumbsup:

[swag]

14. Yeah. I was eight, and we had just moved from Wisconsin to Alexandria, VA

It was our first night out of the hotel and into our new apartment.

I still remember it vividly.

[dpbrown]

16. I remember that...

...for the space flights, we were allowed to wheel in a TV into our grade school classroom and watch in awe as the rockets took off and people walked on the moon for the first time. I will never forget how completely transcendent those moments felt as I watched history unfolding right in front of me.

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. My earliest memory

I was 2-1/2 years old, and I remember standing in the living room watching it on TV. My mother, who was 8 months pregnant with my sister, was sitting behind me. That's the earliest memory I have. I don't think I understood the impact at the time, but whenever I see replays of it, I get chills.

[CottonBear]

18. Wow! I remember the moonwalk as if it were yesterday.

My family and I stayed up and watched the moonwalk.

I became a huge supporter of NASA and space travel and exploration after that amazing event!

[Hugin]

21. Now, that is some interesting trivia.

Ahh, I remember it well... Watching the TeeVee there in the AAUW Playschool.

I remember because we had some delicious ice cream cups. The kind with the little
wooden spoons attached. I was amazed at the technical brilliance required to
include a little spoon with the ice cream.

[outofbounds]

24. I remember wondering who was the first guy

to think about going to the moon, and how long ago was that. I was 6 years old.:applause:

[bridgit]

25. cool, that's work'n...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov :thumbsup:

[MikeH]

26. Out of this world

I remember it from when I was in summer school in college.

[Kajsa]

27. I remember watching it on the TV monitors

at LAX.

I was picking up a friend who was flying in that day.
There were people from all over the world watching it
together!

It truly was " a giant leap for mankind".

Thanks for posting this!

:hi:

[IndyBob]

30. I don't remember much from the 60's -

give me a break, born in '64. Seems to have been a time of extreme highs, and extreme lows.

Both Kennedy's killed, Martin Luther King, Vietnam, cold war, .....Plenty of bad news.

Some good news - civil rights, a sense of progress against some social inequalities, and, of course, the space program. A fulfillment of JFK's promise "we choose to go to the moon ..."

To me, it is an achievement we can be proud of. Like a dad in the stands pointing out his son after he scores a touchdown, "thats my boy".

By the way, howdy everyone. Not the greatest for a first post, but what the H.

PS - I like the spell checker.

[Kajsa]

31. Welcome to DU !

Hey, I don't remember much of the early 50's.
I was born in 1951. Truman was Prez. but I
don't remember it.

I do remember everyone wanting or building a bomb shelter.
That was our reality at the time.

:hi:

[SnohoDem]

29. Thanks for the reminder swag.

And as for the Onion article: :rofl:

[Major Hogwash]

33. Do you remember that Woodstock happened the next month?

I always thought that summer was weird.

Too much shit was going on.

It was the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

[madinmaryland]

39. I got to see Neil Armstrong in a parade honoring him

in his hometown of Wapakoneta, OH later in that summer. I remember staying up to watch the landing and see him walk on the moon. It was incredibly exciting at the time.