Where were you today July 20, 1969

Duc · Jul 20, 2021

I was sitting on a Boat in Annapolis watching on a small black and white TV
First Moon Landing

July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind - NASA

July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon

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DarnYankeeUSMC · Jul 20, 2021

Riding my trike (also known as a Big Wheel) around town.

Downtown · Jul 20, 2021

3rd or 4th grade. Parents woke us up to watch.

Joel Danielson · Jul 20, 2021

Counselor at a summer camp. Remember watching it on the one TV that was in the mess hall.

EddieNFL · Jul 20, 2021

In my back yard with a telescope trying to spot Buzz Aldrin (literally).

Fx51LP308 · Jul 20, 2021

I was driving home with my dad from the marina where he kept his boat. I recall that when Armstrong touched the lunar surface, the town we were driving through sounded the fire sirens. Weird, but interesting.

ggmanning · Jul 20, 2021

Still pooping and pissing in my cloth diaper.

Mike Casselton · Jul 20, 2021

Not sure, but probably glued to the TV.
We used to watch the launches and touchdowns at school too.

woogie_man · Jul 20, 2021

My dad was 8....so not even a shimmer in his eye yet

10ring'r · Jul 20, 2021

I was probably on my hands and knees, picking strawberries. Learning what farm work was.
Mac

supercorndogs · Jul 20, 2021

My dad graduated in 69, I came along about 13 years later.

I wonder if the moon is flat like the earth, just two ritz crackers in space. One on the back of a turtle, an one hanging from a hook in the sky.

OREGUN · Jul 20, 2021

The first space related thing I remember, just barely, is the Challenger explosion.

LeftyJason · Jul 20, 2021

I was -17.

Maggot · Jul 20, 2021

Sitting in the Blue Dahlia drinking a pitcher of Blue Ribbon beer.

FjallJager · Jul 20, 2021

I remember the Challenger. I was probably in 1st or 2nd grade.

They had a moment of silence for the astronauts.

The last space shuttle crash happened when I was home on leave from Europe visiting my daughter.

I was at the NEX in Rota, Spain when I found out they caught Saddam.

I was at the US Embassy in Canberra when they killed Bin Ladin.

I was on the USS Nimitz and we had just pulled out of Singapore on September 11th. Went straight off the coast of India and stayed there for 5 months.

CheStadium · Jul 20, 2021

I was at my GF's 18th birthday party/cookout. We went inside to watch the landing. The other guests left by 9 PM, and I stayed and we watched the moonwalk with her parents.

armorpl8chikn · Jul 20, 2021

I just barely remember the color of the stove and fridge in the trailer. While Armstrong was taking his first steps, so was i.

Expert684 · Jul 20, 2021

For Real: I was just getting back from the lift off in Florida. Grandparents took me all over Florida for summer vacation. We stayed in Coco Beach in a camper and watched it blast off!
The three greatest things I have seen in my life are:
That Launch! I was eleven.
The birth of my son.
And the Space Shuttle re-entry, it flew right over us.
Now all we have on TV is bullshit and snowflakes. Times have changed.
Oh, and fuck Jeff Bezos, he will never be an astronaut. Just a billionaire with a expensive bottle rocket.

Huskydriver · Jul 20, 2021

Is this the out yourself as a boomer thread lol?

Expert684 · Jul 20, 2021

Huskydriver said:
Is this the out yourself as a boomer thread lol?

Nah, but the car I'm getting might give me away.

Nik H · Jul 20, 2021

Watching it on TV

Snipe260 · Jul 20, 2021

I was getting fondle by my teenage babysitter

salks · Jul 20, 2021

In the whom.

Snowballs · Jul 20, 2021

Strolling along with an ANPRC 510 on my back and a 1LT attached to me with a rubber cord demonstrating his superior map reading skills...

John Glidewell · Jul 20, 2021

still in the oven

37L1 · Jul 20, 2021

Reading about some bridge on Chappaquiddick.

candyx · Jul 20, 2021

Actually celebrating my 46th birthday when it landed.

Ankeny · Jul 20, 2021

candyx said:
Actually celebrating my 46th birthday when it landed.

Holy shit you are old.

Doc68 · Jul 20, 2021

Not born.

Quarter Horse · Jul 20, 2021

RVN. I was in country about eight months at the time. The team was small and we were "busy". I don't remember the event but I'm sure we would have been aware of it within a few days. Back in "the world" I'm sure it was well covered and closely followed. In "my world", not so much.

Quarter Horse · Jul 20, 2021

candyx said:
Actually celebrating my 46th birthday when it landed.

Ankeny said:
Holy shit you are old.

Fact or fiction?

candyx · Jul 20, 2021

Quarter Horse said:
Fact or fiction?

I'm old but not that old, 12 at the time.

338LM · Jul 20, 2021

7 years old watching it on TV

bunny too · Jul 20, 2021

Best of my calculation, I was being conceived, my parents were space nuts!

Vaportrail22 · Jul 20, 2021

Living in student housing at the General Theological Seminary in NYC. Also watching on a small black and white tv. I would be at Ft. Gordon in Signal Corps officer training one year later.

acudaowner · Jul 20, 2021

nothing at that point .

sirhrmechanic · Jul 20, 2021

I am sure folks watched it on out 12” black and white. But I was three, so if I was there I sure as shit don’t remember. I do remember later ones though. Last one for sure. And Skylab. And Apollo Soyuz. Sirhr

BAMCIS · Jul 20, 2021

Watching it on tv,,an epic time.

Jerry V · Jul 20, 2021

I was up with Mom, Dad, and my brothers watching the B&W TV drinking cup of hot Dr. Prepper with lemon slices. Can still see the images in my mind. Great times growing up and seeing the wonder of the world and what could be done if allowed to dream big things.

DocRDS · Jul 20, 2021

I was not here. or there.
or anywhere.

theLBC · Jul 20, 2021

sitting on the floor of the living room, in front of the tv with the rest of the family.

502Chevelle · Jul 20, 2021

I was only 8, and my parents wouldn’t let me stay up to watch it. Our color tv was broken and my dad filmed it with his movie camera on the little black and white tv that we had. We had those home movies around for a long time, but I have no idea where they are now.

Waorani · Jul 20, 2021

11 and had to be watching on B/W.

Quarter Horse · Jul 20, 2021

candyx said:
I'm old but not that old, 12 at the time.

Gotcha' by about ten years. You were about to become my old fart hero.

hlee · Jul 20, 2021

I was still 9 years and 11 days premature…

Hobo Hilton · Jul 20, 2021

Sunday evening High School Church group was at my Parents house... In looking back... That was a good group to share that evening with.

Hobo

Longhorn in Utah · Jul 21, 2021

I was one, so probably shitting myself somewhere.

Foul Mike · Jul 21, 2021

Doing a little walkabout in the jungle. The news came in on our PRC-25.

norcalAF · Jul 21, 2021

My dad was a hair over ten years old

fanninland · Jul 21, 2021

4 yrs old, watching on the Curtis Mathis “furniture” tv with the fam. The next day when my folks were at work I drew a reenactment of Armstrong saluting Old Glory on the lunar surface….using red Crayon on mom’s white couch. The way my mom reacted I thought I was in for a whuppin’ when dad got home, but he just laughed and shook his head.

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