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

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

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.

Well, color TVs were very expensive in those days and very few people had them.

 

[KansasCock#1]

I watched it in the Civil Air Patrol barracks in Keesler MI

 

[rogue cock]

Well, color TVs were very expensive in those days and very few people had them.

Yep. We had a 19" B&W Admiral. The only way I know that is it became "my" TV in high school. Our first color TV was a Heathkit that my dad ordered and built shortly after he got out of the AF. And most importantly, we got a rotary antenna so I no longer had to go outside and turn the pole the antenna was on.

 

[Freddie.B.Cocky]

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

The best times of my life has been after retirement. I have missed work some but I love my freedom (that I never had before) a lot more. I get to do almost anything I want, the pandemic slowed it down but I should be back to normal around the later part of October.

 

[goosecreekcocky]

We lived in Huntsville, Alabama from 1963 to 1965. My dad actually worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center with Honeywell, which was a subcontractor with NASA. Those were some crazy years. When they static tested the Saturn 5 engines the whole city would shake. When the first Apollo mission reached the moon I wasn't surprised. This was a whole city focusing on going to the moon and von Braun and his team were rock stars.

 

[GoCocksFight2021]

Rocket design certainly took a turn for the worse visually. Probably not going to be a best selling toy at Christmas time. At least, not for the kids. lol

 

[GoCocksFight2021]

THIS is a rocket any boy would be proud to own.

 

[FCB 2013 treble]

THIS is a rocket any boy would be proud to own.

That looks like the Saturn 1B which I think was used for Apollo seven. The Saturn V was used for the next mission (Apollo eight) in which went to the moon without the Lunar Excursion Module that did several lunar orbits on or around Christmas day 1968.

 

[FCB 2013 treble]

. When they static tested the Saturn 5 engines the whole city would shake. When the first Apollo mission reached the moon I wasn't surprised. This was a whole city focusing on going to the moon and von Braun and his team were rock stars.

They had a major issue with the stage one (five rockets) on the Saturn V during development. Those engines would end up exploding.

 

[Fenderrhodes]

Was eating a tv dinner on a tv tray watching with my parents.

 

[Rock Hill Cock]

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!

It was historic. And only in my dreams could I ever take off a teenage girl’s bra anytime.

 

[FORKCOCK]

Watching in our den with my mother, father and brother.

 

[mauze1]

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 living at UT (University Terrace) on Blossom. I watched all of it.