I remember this day 50 yrs ago today like it was yesterday, sitting in front of our first ever TV and watching B&W grainy pics of the Apollo space craft lifting off on its mission to the moon.. Blue Peter made a model of the rocket ship from fairy liquid bottles and I was desperate for my Mum to finish using hers so I could make one too.. The spacecraft would disappear round the back of earth for about 45 mins out of range of radio contact etc and I sat there desperately waiting to hear the radio crackle back into life again.. WOW! X
Exactly the same memory. First TV. B&W. Dad enthusing (he’s an engineer). Silence and fear as they went around the dark side. Euphoria as contact was re established.
Think of all those songs we would never of had if they hadn’t gone there.. The Police “ walking on the moon” REM and Man on the moon.. PF and “dark side of the moon” Bowie’s “major Tom” Well, probably not.. Etc etc x
I was only a year old so I don’t remember it I watched the moon landing last night with Mr cox and that other guy Darius or something I’m a believer now
I was 3 and we didn't have telly Didn't see it so it can't be true - especially in black and white.....
We didn't have a TV but my dad borrowed my uncle's spare small B&W set. I was in awe, not just of the moon landing but also of the fact that we had a TV in our house. It went back afterwards and we didn't have our own for another 7 years.
i was also not born for the first landing, but watching the number of films, documentaries over the last few days, you just have to be in awe at their bravery to carry out these launches etc.. for me growing up with the Shuttle program, Moonraker the Bond film, and all the launches, i was saddened that i never got to see a launch in real life.
I am content that men went into space in a Saturn 5 rocket, parts of that rocket went round the moon, and that the men returned safely to earth some days later. That in itself is one heck of an achievement. The rest I am less sure about, so I struggle to get over excited about the 50 years media fest going on at the moment.
watched it at my grans with my dad and family. B&W telly! Was eight at the time. Will never forget it (it was also the latest I'd ever stayed up to watch telly)
Oh don’t ask. I have a good friend that honestly believes it didn’t happen despite the fact that it’s been proven that there are reflectors on the moon placed there by man & how utterly impossible it is to comprehend the scale of a cover up of this magnitude involving 10’s of thousand’s of people with not one single person breaking ranks over the last 50yrs defies all logic. Mind you, she also believes that the Cosa Nostra shot Kennedy & that Elvis secretly retired because he couldn’t handle the fame.
