OT: Who remembers what they were doing 52 years ago today?

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

It was the first time man walked on the moon. I was on my way back to college to finish up my last secession of Summer School before graduation. I didn't get to see the actual landing as it was happening. I watched a replay later that night on TV but gosh it was a momentous event in the history of mankind.

 

[coolcock2001]

I was able to live this moment through the television show Mad Men OP

 

[76MACC]

I was out in Arizona where they filmed all that.

 

[chief2791]

Can't help you Freddie, I was still a twinkle in my father's eye.

 

[GarnetBeamer]

Ahhh, man. I wasn't alive, but I love the history. The movie "Hidden FIgures" is excellent and made me kind of sad. We won the space race simply by sheer will of force and determination. We won it because losing it wasn't a fathomable outcome. We won because we determined that America not winning wasn't an option. While it was fun to watch, it made me sad b/c we'll probably never recapture that mindset again.

 

[rogue cock]

I generally remember. I was 5 or 6 at the time and we were living in Newport News, VA. Dad was stationed at Langley and was serving in Viet Nam. We were living in a townhouse near the base along with a lot of other Air Force personnel. I believe that was when my mom finally got him to leave the AF because if he reupped, he was being sent back. We watched the nightly news without fail, so I kinda remember seeing it on TV....mainly remember the reports coming from the war because my sister and I had to be real quiet during that time. Remember a few things from that time....most great, some not so much so.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

Ahhh, man. I wasn't alive, but I love the history. The movie "Hidden FIgures" is excellent and made me kind of sad. We won the space race simply by sheer will of force and determination. We won it because losing it wasn't a fathomable outcome. We won because we determined that America not winning wasn't an option. While it was fun to watch, it made me sad b/c we'll probably never recapture that mindset again.

You are correct, we will probably never recapture that mindset again. I remember going to my Physical Chemistry class the next day and all of us students and the professor spend the entire class talking about the historic event and what it would mean to the future of science.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

Ahhh, man. I wasn't alive, but I love the history. The movie "Hidden FIgures" is excellent and made me kind of sad. We won the space race simply by sheer will of force and determination. We won it because losing it wasn't a fathomable outcome. We won because we determined that America not winning wasn't an option. While it was fun to watch, it made me sad b/c we'll probably never recapture that mindset again.

They did it all with slide rules and minimal computers.

 

[GarnetBeamer]

They did it all with slide rules and minimal computers.

Yep. At least as far as the events in the movie were concerned, the computers were people...people who computed. Insane. For all of our fiddling with the education system, we are definitely NOT any smarter than we were back then.

 

[psmith5532]

I was 8 years old and remember watching it on TV with me parents

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

They did it all with slide rules and minimal computers.

According to one of the astronauts that was on that mission, he made the statement a few years back, and I'm paraphrasing as best as I can, there is about as much computing power in a high end smart phone today as there was computing power used during that particular mission.

 

[vacock#]

At my parent’s home watching on TV.

 

[goosecreekcocky]

Watching it with my friend in his basement and getting stoned.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

My parents grabbed us and we all sat around the TV (19" B&W of course) and watched along with Uncle Walter (the elders on here will know who that is)

 

[Rock Hill Cock]

I was unbuckling a teenage girl's bra

 

[titaniumspur]

I was a little young for that one. But I remember watching the “splashdown” a few years later. It gave us a new vocabulary, words like lunar module, rocket stages, I sure there are more.

 

[hahnenkampf]

They did it all with slide rules and minimal computers.

Today’s automobile has tens of millions of times the computing power than what took man to the moon.

 

[JodyD]

I was 18 and watched in awe on the news on tv. It was awesome and unbelievable!

 

[mikeypen]

I was in Mrs. Walker's Kindergarten in Laurens. She took us all in the living room of her house and we all sat on the floor and watched it on her TV.

 

[andersoncountycock]

I was 16 and working as a cook at a drive-in where you hang trays on car windows.

 

[bigsirspur]

I was unbuckling a teenage girl's bra

Which is particularly impressive since you were 9 at the time.

 

[alexj1]

It was the last day of my of reserve duty. I was in the Coast Guard and had spent the previous 2 weeks on a buoy tender stationed in Miami Beach. We had spent the previous week servicing buoys up and down the Intracoastal Waterway. We happened to anchor just east of Canaveral for the night.
While we could not see the actual liftoff, we could certainly hear the sound of the spaceship pass overhead on its way to the moon. We then proceeded back to MB and were released on the Sunday that the moon landing occurred . I actually watched it at an apartment complex on Biscayne Bay that evening. That would have been 52 years ago today. I was 30 years old.

 

[Rock Hill Cock]

Which is particularly impressive since you were 9 at the time.

I wish. I was 16 and she was 15. We did have a small TV in the room.

 

[Flameout12]

I was out in Arizona where they filmed all that.

 

[cocks rule]

It was the first time man walked on the moon. I was on my way back to college to finish up my last secession of Summer School before graduation. I didn't get to see the actual landing as it was happening. I watched a replay later that night on TV but gosh it was a momentous event in the history of mankind.

My dad trying to wake me up to watch with him but those 8:30 bedtimes were hard to interrupt after 5 years. Lol

 

[GatorlandGamecock]

I watched it live from my family home in Columbia on TV. I was 20 years old and a sophomore at USC.

 

[gcobob]

I watched the lift off from Daytona Beach. My parents woke me up days later at home to watch the moon walk.

 

[Bftboy]

I was 11 and watched in library of my neighborhood high school.

 

[king ward]

It was the first time man walked on the moon. I was on my way back to college to finish up my last secession of Summer School before graduation. I didn't get to see the actual landing as it was happening. I watched a replay later that night on TV but gosh it was a momentous event in the history of mankind.

I was sitting in my future wife's living room watching Walter Cronkite describe one of the most surreal events of any of our lifetimes. I was 18.

 

[Gaimcock]

It was the first time man walked on the moon. I was on my way back to college to finish up my last secession of Summer School before graduation. I didn't get to see the actual landing as it was happening. I watched a replay later that night on TV but gosh it was a momentous event in the history of mankind.

I was 2 years old, so honestly don't recall 2 B honest! I do remember when Apollo 13 occurred and my Dad trying to explain it to my Mom, and I also recall when Lancaster, SC native Charlie Duke landed on the moon in 72. Heck, I graduated High School w/ Duke's nephew, and his brother was my Dad's Doctor (i.e., primary care physician for these modern terms).

Anyway, just sayin'.

 

[LBGCOCK]

Not me.

 

[Gaimcock]

I was sitting in my future wife's living room watching Walter Cronkite describe one of the most surreal events of any of our lifetimes. I was 18.

My Mom was 22, my Dad had just turned 25 on 07.12.1969.

The only thing I can really recall in regards to Apollo 11 is when it landed in the Pacific Ocean.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

I was unbuckling a teenage girl's bra

That's sad because you missed a historic event. You could have taken off a teenage girl's bra anytime. You wasted your night unless it was Vanna White's bra. LOL!

 

[GreatestCock]

There are certainly a lot of people around here older than I realized.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

There are certainly a lot of people around here older than I realized.

We are a bunch of old dudes. LOL!

 

[Gaimcock]

I was unbuckling a teenage girl's bra

What with you being a York County boy back then, well let me guess: you busted ya "privates", and hence had to give it up huh?? 😅😄😃😀😊😁

 

[cockhornleghorn]

It was one of my earliest memories; we watched it on an old 19" B&W Panasonic TV. My dad was too cheap to buy a color TV.

 

[Bear_Rooster]

I wasn’t born then, but I remember my parents and grandparents talking about it during my life. I enjoy reading the comments about what others were doing.

 

[alexj1]

There are certainly a lot of people around here older than I realized.

If you are fortunate enough to live as long as I have, hopefully you have had some good memories.

 

[paladin181]

I was too busy happily not yet existing.