you say that like it's a good thing kids these dayss1m0n wrote:I'm older than you? Far out!Walden wrote:That was a few years before my parents had even met.
20 July 1969: Where were you?
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I never saw it as I was in the first week of Army basic training.
Bill
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A discovery like this requires some Yeats:Denny wrote:you say that like it's a good thing ... kids these dayss1m0n wrote:I'm older than you? Far out!Walden wrote:That was a few years before my parents had even met.
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Like Charlene, I was fourteen years old. I watched it on TV, in Black & White.
I had made plastic models of the top sections of the rocket, with the lunar module.
There were other, political, things happening in my neck of the woods around that time.
I had made plastic models of the top sections of the rocket, with the lunar module.
There were other, political, things happening in my neck of the woods around that time.
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I was nowhere, not being born for another 11 years...
My earliest NASA memory was watching Challenger live on TV with my Mum
My earliest NASA memory was watching Challenger live on TV with my Mum
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I was 10. My dad made me watch it for historic value. I'm glad he did.
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I was four years old. I have this vague memory of my dad complaining about Walter Cronkite (RIP) talking over the astronauts and mission control. (Although that could've been from one of the later moon shots. Like I said, it's a vague memory.)
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I was was in a P-3 flying over the Bering Sea listening for Soviet submarines. The Patrol Plane Commander told us about the landing over the comm.
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I was eight years old and glued to the TV. I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm not sure how inspired I was by the moon shot, but I did become a science geek.
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I was 21 at my parent's house, watching a black and white TV. The TV was in the corner and the front door was open letting in the afternoon sun. Not that I remember anything about it. A side note: I was working at a small magnetics house that made coils and such for the military and NASA. One of the coils had NASA work instrucitons with it and I proceeded to test the number of tuurns on the coil. I promptly put too much current in it and smoke the stupid thing. My boss ( head inspector) was not pleased.
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A lovely thread...showing our age now..but it cannot be denied that America put a Man on the Moon, and brought them back.
Now they send their young boys to War...
A War that is not about Land ...
Slan,
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Now they send their young boys to War...
A War that is not about Land ...
Slan,
D.
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Yep.dubhlinn wrote:A lovely thread...showing our age now..but it cannot be denied that America put a Man on the Moon, and brought them back.
Now they send their young boys to War...
A War that is not about Land ...
Slan,
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They were sending them to a controversial war then too.
Reasonable person
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And let's not forget that the lunar missions were part of another war, and about land, the high ground.
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A war?
Which one?
Which one?
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