I don't remember the launch, but certainly the landing.

There is a very good film called "The Dish", based on facts that have been forgotten regarding the Apollo 11 story.

+1 for being 6

I can remember everyone coming round for both the launch and landing. The music they use for the launches still gets the heart rate pounding, that and Thunderbirds and original Star Wars.

What I really remember is being so sleepy and finding it hard to stay awake and how long they took to come out. Then the shaky climb down, and the immortal alleged fluffing of lines.

I also remember in the 70's seeing an Apollo command module in Switerland when they had t on loan. I think it was Apollo 8. When I stuck my head in it looked like someone had been to radioshack to get the components. Brave brave men.

When my son was about 6, he asked me did people really go to the moon or is it made up. When I told him we really did, he could not understand why we still were not going.

Adrian

bit older i was twelve remember collecting i think they were esso coins to put into the holder every time Dad came home wheres the coin thinking he filled up every day

Geoff

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Edited By Emgee on 16/07/2019 19:50:52

Thanks for the link. The launch is awe-inspiring. The things humans can do!

I remember watching the landing with my parents, brothers and sister, dressed in my pyjamas and almost too tired to stay awake. My mother was knitting a strangely misshapen but endearing red doll for my sister. She called it "Moonie". We still have it somewhere.

Resting heart rate today is around 54bpm (used to be 42). Under stress can get into the high 190's. Not been above 186 for a year or two.

Neil Armstrong's model aircraft looks like a Staggerwing Beech. https://youtu.be/JH5JwC4Oo38?t=8

Not sure if the model is c/l or free flight though.

Most of my "free flight" models when I was a kid converted to "lost flight" shortly after launch…. Nice to watch them sail away smoothly though.

Edited By Jeff Dayman on 16/07/2019 20:35:06

Eclipse of the moon time !

It was the friendly time of about 1 pm here. I took the day off school as I thought it way too important not to watch in comfort. The film The Dish is great and quite charming, however the first 2 plus minutes of the transmission came through Honeysuckle Creek outside Canberra before switching over to the Parks radio telescope. So annoyed at this forgotten contribution was one bloke that he wrote a book called Honeysuckle Creek.

I would have been 15 at the time and watched the landing in my bedroom on an old 12" black and white TV that I had repaired. I stopped up all night to watch it as I think it was in the early hours in the UK? I think I scived off school the next day!

John

Edited By John Baguley on 17/07/2019 00:29:01

I was a bit older, around 14 I think. My step-mum actually worked at the in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre during that period and remembers seeing the various components of the Saturn IV and Saturn V rockets passing through, as well as the astronauts and support staff. She was then moved in 1968 to Cape Canaveral and remembers all the staff gathering around in the mission control room to watch various launches of the Saturn V rockets. She left there in June 1969 after getting married so just missed the launch of Apollo 11.

Apparently when Armstrong was piloting the lander down to the surface his heartbeat reached 160, mission control were worried! This got me thinking, is this bad for you if the elevated rate is caused by stress, as it was piloting the lander (I guess) rather than physical exertion?

I agree with the comments on "The Dish", a wonderful film, I'm hoping one of the TV networks will broadcast it as part of the moon landing celebrations.

John