In a Detroit school, was a big event, all the kids in the gym, on the floor, one TV.

My mother and I were sitting on the porch in Idaho looking up in the sky and wondering what it would be like to walk on the moon.

I was watching it on tv and looking through my fathers home made telescope with its 8 inch mirror.
hoping we could see more than just the craters of the moon.
I was 9 years old.

I was watching the walk on the moon as a family gathering as my father was one of the designer’s of that flight. We always watched the space flights as my parent were part of the aeronautic field.

I was 14, we were all watching it on TV as my father was one of the designer’s and mom help build the Appollo’s as they were in the aeronautic field. This is something we did whenever an Appollo or whatever was lifting off.

I was seven watched it on our black&white tv with my three younger sisters and parents

I was an Army Nurse on night duty in an Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. The moon landing was broadcast over the PA system at the hospital. I remember as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and uttered those famous words, the patients cheered.

I was an Army Nurse on night duty in an Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. The moon landing was broadcast over the PA system at the hospital. I remember when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and uttered those famous words, the patients cheered.

Where was I ? I was at the Northwest Hospital in Seattle, Wa. when my son Neil Armstrong Dial was born the exact minute that Neil Armstong landed on the moon and the hospital named him Neil Armstrong Dial and he was in news brodcasts and paper articles around the world. He also received a letter from Neil Armstrong wishing him a successful life. Recently he received a telephone call from Neil Armstong and had a meeting with him. If Fox News is interested in more info you can call me at 480-246-7506.

I was an Army Nurse on night duty at an Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. We listened to the moon landing over the PA system in the hospital. I remember when Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon surface and uttered those famous words, the patients cheered.

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I was in the Army flying for InterAmerican Geodetic Survey in the little town of Buena Ventura Colombia. We were invited to the home of a local family and watched on a teeny little tv in their home. Obviously the station was a local station because all the commentary was in spanish while in the background you could here the famous dialog in English.

I was glued to the television. I am a NASA junkie. I love it and want us to go back but absolutely refuse to let my grandchildren become astronauts. Like I could stop them if that’s what they wanted to do. I’ve submitted a list of jobs they can’t get. That’s on the list. I don’t want them to fly stealth planes, either. That’s on the list. They are all too smart for their own goods. I want them to be robotic engineers, then they can send robots. I’ll wait for the bus.

In the middle of the woods at Camp Grayling in Michigan (summer Camp Michigan Army National Guard). We were listening on radio!

I was watching the lunar landing on TV with my parents and friends. I graduated from high school in 1969, two months earlier; and turned 18 two days before the landing. It was an exciting event that made all of us proud of our Country’s scientists, engineers and astronauts.

I was a Tenderfoot Boy Scout attending my first summer camp (Camp Don Harrington), outside of Amarillo, TX. The entire camp was called to evening muster to watch the landing. It was especially exciting because Neil Armstrong was and Eagle scout and the lander was named “Eagle.” I was never so amazed, thrilled, and proud to be an American and a Boy Scout when the Eagle landed and he stepped onto the Moon. Tears of joy were shed by man and boy alike

I was at Fort McClellan, Alabama. We were experiencing one heck of a crashing lightning-thunderstorm outside, in the nearby forest. Several of our excited cadets (all members of the WAC College Jr. Program) were spellbound and elated, while peering at a super-fuzzy image on a black and white TV screen. Although TV reception was very poor, enthusiasm was high. It was before midnight.

I was in my parents living room with my two younger siblings, parents and my 87 year old grandfather. We were all watching a black and white TV and were in awe of what was happening.
I remember my grandfather commenting that he had now seen it all. He was born in 1882, and remarked that in his lifetime, the first autos, airplanes and now space travel to the moon had occurred!

My husband was stationed in Norfolk, and we lived in Virgina Beach with our 10 mo-old daughter. We watched the moonlanding live, and my husband managed to take pictures of the TV images with a 35 mm Petri. My Dad back in Oklahoma did likewise with his Nikon, and later ordered official slides of the landing from NASA. It was a time of wonder and pride for all Americans.
We still have all of the slides and have shared the story with our children and grandchildren.

I was a military dependent living in Sasabo, Japan. My husband’s ship was out of port involved with the Vietnam War. I simultaneously watched a Japanese TV broadcast with it’s sound turned off (since I wasn’t fluent in Japanese) and the listened to the voice of Armed Forces Radio, to follow the landing on the moon. It was thrilling!

Hey Greta,
Know where I was on July 20th 1969. Aboard the USS Hornet CVS-12, The recovery ship for
Apollo 11 and Apollo 12. Yes, I was part of the Crew. The USS Hornet is now a museum in Alameda, California and there will be a 40th Anniverary Splashdown celebration aboard the Hornet July 23-26 the public and especially the crew member are invited. I would appreciate it if you could mention this
on your show. I never miss your show.
Thank You, Robert Ash USN Retired

I was 22 years old, in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Lockborne AFB in Columbus, OH. About 3 months later I left for Vietnam.

I was 14 at the time and in Mexico City with my aunt MARY.We watched it through a store window in downtown Mexico City.

I was 14 at the time and had traveled to Mexico with my aunt.We watched through a store window in down town Mexico City.

In the day room at basic training company at Ft. Knox, KY. Had just come in from dinner with my wife, who was visiting from NY and I had just seen her for the first time in 8 weeks. A very memorable day and night.

I was camping at Cook’s Forest in Northwestern Pa and we watched it on a very small black and white TV outside.

I remember exactly where I was when man first walked on the moon.

For some reason, the only TV that picked up the signal that was being broadcast was the TV in my brother’s room. It was a long and narrow room with bunk beds on one side and a TV on the other. My entire family, Dad, Mom, myself, Kevin, Wayne, Lori, Mike and Marie were all on the bunk beds watching Neil Armstrong as he made history.

I was on the top bunk with Mike and Wayne. Everyone else was on the bottom.

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I was on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific….saw Apollo 11 re-enter the atmosphere…was awesome

I was 21 years old at the time and my parents were moving from Detroit to Shelby Township, Michigan. The TV was the very last thing to leave our house for the moving truck, as we were all so eager to watch history-in-the-making!

I was at Cape Kennedy as an engineer on the Lunar Mission Simulator and worked in the astronaut training building. We were all biting our nails as we knew they were nearly out of fuel and still had not landed.

I was sixteen years old, sitting on the living room floor in front of the B&W tv. I remember holding my breath as I waited to hear the astronauts say something as they touched down. Finally, a voice said, “The Eagle has landed.” It was such a tense moment and such a feeling of relief. We all had grown fond of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins because they and their families had been featured on so many news programs. The next tense moment was a little later in the day when Armstrong set his boot down on the moon’s surface. It’s a day I’ll never forget, and I sure hope I live long enough to see it happen again.

Our sorority had a summer place in Margate, NJ. The guys had a house across the street. Their living room was large so we all gathered there (maybe 20 of us) and watched on a small screen TV. It was very exciting and something I will always remember.

I was at the 1969 National Boy Scout Jamboree in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Any available TV set was tuned to the landing. Then, at one of the big events, whith thousands of Scouts gathered in the ampitheater, they replayed the landing on a big projection screen. I am not sure I recall correctly, but I believe that the astronauts addressed the Scouts from space.

I was fourteen.We were on a family camping vacation in our home state of Indiana. Dad bought a portable black and white TV so we could watch. Our family and several other campers gathered around this small little screen. It was so exciting! From that moment on I love to look at the moon. A moment I will never forget. Wow!!!!

I was watching the tv coverage from my hospital room after giving birth that day to my son. He has always felt special to share his birthday with this momentous event.
The maternity ward was crammed full and the joke was that the events on the moon were causing many more women to go into labor.

I was a stay at home Mom and I remember gathering my 9 yr old and 2 six year olds to sit on the couch with me and watch Neil Armstrong. I told them I knew they did not understand but I wanted them to remember this moment because it was a real moment in history. I’m not sure if any of them do remember but I do.

Well,
How would I know? I was only 1 1/2 years old.

i was merely a twinkle in my mothers eye..

somewhere in viet nam, but can’t remember where, too long ago. never saw the actual event happening, till retured home in nov. 69

I was on a tugboat and part of the flotilla of 18 tug boats and 37 barges bringing the 1st sea lift of materials to Prudoe Bay, Alaska for the new pipeline.

I was 12 years old at the time. I lived around the corner from the Methodist Hospital Central in Memphis, TN. Every day we could, my friend and I would go to the Cafeteria there and get a
milkshake. One day though, we stopped and watched the TV at the Father’s waiting room at the Hospital to watch the men walk on the moon. Everyone was standing and glued to the TV. Even
the Dads waiting for their children to be born.

I was in the United States Navy, stationed at NWS Seal Beach, CA. I had duty that day and watched the historic event in the Lounge.

I was in the U.S. Army on the island of Okinawa. The summer of 1969 many thousands of U.S. troops passed through Okinawa on their way to or from Vietnam. EM clubs, NCO clubs and O clubs were the only places with TV broadcasted by AFR&T (armed forces radio & televison) network. There were few military clubs on the island and thus most were restricted those assigned to the island. Only one club in the second largest military base on the island placed a TV on the outside of the building for all to see the landing. The screen was no larger than 19″ and most likely smaller, yet well over a thousand men who were off duty at the time crowded the parking lot to watch. For the remaining thousands it was a duty day for rotating to and from the south, and the historic landing was literally the last thing on their minds. Several hours after, a comment was made in a small group of men who had been waiting in lines all day long in prep. for deployment, “Hey, did you hear we landed on the moon”?, to which another responded, “their orders must have come from here”. (in ref. to the fact men waiting to go south, many times ended up in Korea, north. With last minute changes to orders, no man could answer the question, “where are you headed”? Nothing else was said, for those passing through Okinawa, the only landing on their mind was their next one.

I was at my grandparents ,in gassville ar. i was 14 back then! It was so exciting to watch!!!!!!!!!!!!

My family drove home from our summer camp that evening and the highways were deserted! When we got home we all went to watch the event on TV. Not unpacking the car immediately upon arrival was a first; this was an important event!

It was the summer after 9th grade and I was at majorette/twirling camp in the pocono mountains in pennsylvania. It was a rainy dreary week and the night of the moon landing we all gathered in our cabin huddled around a black and white tv and watched a man land on the moon. It was an incredible experience and even as a young teen, I was in awe of the event. The evening was balmy and I remember looking out the window at the moon as we watched the event on the tv. Pretty amazing. It was definitely an event marked in time in my memory with the same significance as the day JFK was assassinated. I remember a place and time when we were told about that as well. I had not realized that it had been such a long time since the last astronaut walked on the moon, not realizing that was the focus of the space program at that time. In the late 70s the focus was on the take off/ orbiting of the moon/and the landing of the space shuttle. Witnessed a space shuttle landing in St. Louis in 1979. The first man on the moon event was definitely a significant event in my lifetime.

I was in the Air Force, stationed in Darmstadt, Germany (a reward for serving in Vietnam in 1968). We watched a small black and white TV tuned to the Armed Forces Network in our day-room/gasthaus in the wee hours of the morning. When we heard the words “Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed”, everyone watching let out a chear! Later, I served at Partick AFB, Florida, supporting the Cape, then returned as a civilian engineer and worked the conversion from Apolo to Shuttle. I left the Cape in 1986, shortly after the Challenger disaster and sadly, never returned.

I was trying to watch television and pack for my infant daughter and I to make a 19 hour flight to join my husband at Kadena AFB in Okinawa

I WAS 15 YRS. OLD AND ATTENDING YOUTH GROUP AT AL AND MARY’S HOME IN WEST CHICAGO, IL. ALL OF US WERE IN THEIR BASEMENT WATCHING. ALONG WITH A HANDFUL OF MOMENTOUS EVENTS IN MY LIFETIME, IT IS SOMETHING I WON’T EVER FORGET.

Sitting in a bunker in South Vietnam.

Stationed in the Philippines, I was visiting Filipino friends in a suburb of Manila when this happened. I don’t know who was more excited, me or my friends. We all cheered as Neil Armstron made that 1st step.

Serving in the Navy, and stationed in the Philippines I was crowded around a small b/w tv at the home of Filipino friends in a Manila suburb. We all went nuts when Neail Armstrong took that 1st step.

My new wife and I were in Jack Dempsey’s In the Big Apple
Celebrating Our Marriage When The Ship
landed and History was made Great day for us and all of America

I was 16 the day Apollo landed on the moon took place,I was watching it with my 91 year old grandfather,my mother was also there…we all sat watching the black & white picture and listening when they said One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind..caused goose bumps..I remembering my mother asking my grandfather if he ever thought he would ever live long enough
to see a man land on the moon and grandpa said no Juanita I never thought Id ever see that….

We were at Falls City, Oregon at a church camp called Camp Tampawingo… several of us were standing next to a 57 Chevy listening to the radio when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. We all cheered and later that night a camp counsulor took many of us out with binoculars to look at the stars.

My facination with the stars and space lead me into the USAF a few years later and I even had the honor of meeting Gen. Charlie M. Duke, Apollo 16 at a medal presentation ceremony, where I was the recipient. Even now, I always look out at night from my ranch… wondering… “who may be out there in space, besides us?

It took me years to see the original moon landing. I was in Vietnam and heard the original landing broadcast live over AFVN network. Years later I visited the Smithsonian and I am still amazed that they went to the moon in a tin can with about as much room as a VW backseat. I never saw the lunar landing but I was thrilled to my human core to hear it.

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I was in Rome, Italy with the U.S. Navy. The piazza’s shops all had TV’s in their storefront windows so passersby could see the landing. Everyone was drinking champagne while wading in the Trevi Fountain, including me!

On July 20, 1969, I was a 3rd Class Petty Officer with U.S. Navy HelicopterCombatSupportSquadronSeven (HC7), stationed at NAS Atsugi,
Atsuigi, Japan.
I and other memebers of my squadron were playing pool and watching
everything unfold on a black and white TV in our barracks rec room.
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On July 20, 1969, I was a 3rd Class Petty Officer stationed with U. S. Navy Hellicopter Combat Support Squadron Seven (HC7), NAS Atsugi, Atsugi, Japan. I and others were in the rec room of barrack’s playing pool and watching the moon landing event unfold on a black and white TV.

We were at Tomorrow Land (Disneyland, Calif.) There were large screens showing the landing and N. Armstrongs great comments on the landing. The crowd went wild in appreciation

After following the space program with a tremendous amount of interest from the beginning, in July, 1969, I was in the middle of basic training, and missed the whole thing.
Norm Hermann
Racine, WI

I was in the jungle in Vietnam and had no idea they landed on the moon until 2 weeks later.

We were watching the “landing” on TV (very exciting!) and I still have the Chicago Tribune newspaper from the next day reporting the moon landing. My daughter was only 2 and my son had not yet been born or like Merry Jones above, I would have had them watch it also! What a great moment in history.

I was in Oxford, MS, looking for a place to live for me and my two children. Three days before, July 17th, I was granted a divorce and felt that I had made my own giant step, walking on my own moon and no longer earth bound. I was only vaguely aware that men were walking on the moon that day. The country was celebrating and hopeful. So was I but quietly and for different reasons. I was 28 years old. Life has been good.

I don’t remember exactly where I was, but I know where my father, who passed away 4 years ago, was. He was the last civilian to leave the space craft before the astronauts borded. He was the final electrical inspector. A point of interest: The next time anyone actually gets to the moon they need to check the legs of the original landing module that is still there. One of the legs will have my step-mom’s name inscribed on it with a pocket knife – Geri Courliss!

I don’t remember exactly where I was, but I know where my father, Roy Courliss, who passed away four years ago, was. He was the last civilian to leave the space craft before the astronauts boarded. He was the final electrical inspector.
A point of interest: The next time anyone actually visits the moon, be sure to check out the legs of the original landing module. They should find my step-mom’s name inscribed with a pocket knife – Geri Courliss.

I was sitting on my front lawn in Titusville, Fl. looking at the moon to see if I could make out any human or LEM movements. Dad worked for the space agency and our family was out there trying to see if the the Moon, like the rest of humanity, showed any immediate signs of change. Great memory even though I was a little guy – 6 yrs old.

We were on our honeymoon!!!!!!! Charlie and sharon were married on July 13th 1969 and just had our 40th wedding anniversary.

we were on our honeymoon!!!!!!!!!!

Serving in the US Air Force in Sardinia, Italy in the town of Tempio, watching on television through an appliance store’s window. It was AWESOME! I remember wondering if they would make it back to Earth. Thankfully, by the grace of God, they did. And thus ended Russia’s participation in the space race.

My wife and I were preparing to leave our home in Florida the next day to drive to Washington, D.C., from where we were to depart for a year in England on a Fulbright Exchange Fellowship – with our two sons, then one and two years of age, in tow.
We watched late into the night on July 20, marveling at the achievement. We then observed, later during our year in England, the plight of Apollo 13.

Today is my 40th birthday ,so I was being born in the small town of shelbyville In. My mother has pictures of me laying in her arms while they were gathered around amazed about the moon walk .

I was breech, less than 1 month before I was born. My mother had to watch the moon lading upside down on her head, trying to get me to turn over to a proper head-down position for birth. I was late anyway…

This was my very first memory. I was 2 1/2 years old, lying on my Mom’s bed upstairs in our apartment. I had the flu and was whining about having to sit up and watch our little 11″ black and white TV. The first story was the lunar landing which I remember seeing and hearing, but it meant nothing to me at the time. The second story was Viet Nam. I remember seeing soldiers moving around in tall grass and my Mom telling me “That’s where Daddy is.” Now that I’m 42 1/2 with an 8 year old daughter who was 2 months old on 9-11, and my parents are 68 and attending annual 101st Airborne reunions, and every Viet Nam vet I see has gray hair like my Dad, I have a real appreciation for that distant memory… especially when I tell my daughter about it as she and my Dad look at the Moon through my 8″ Celestron telescope. Isn’t life amazing?

I was 15 yrs old and GROUNDED! Go figure! My dad said I could not leave my bedroom and my mom moved the TV set so that I could stand in the door way and see down the hall into the living room. I will neverd forget watching that landing. I don’t remember what I did to get grounded but I do remember the moon landing!

Connie
St. Helens, OR

I watched the landing on the tv in my parents’ living room, with my mom, dad, and little sister. I was finishing up 30 days leave; shipped out the next morning for Viet Nam. Seemed an odd way to spend my last evening at home, under the circumstances, but we couldn’t miss that show! So a couple of reasons to remember that day.

I was 14 years old. My Mom, Dad, and little sister, went to the home of a family friend and watched it on their large TV in the basement. One of the best days to be an American!!!

My family and a couple friends were sitting in our living room watching the landing on our new color TV. It was an exciting time.

WE WERE IN MEXICO CITY AT A PARTY TO WATCH THE HAPPENING. OUR CHILDREN WERE CHILDREN AND WE JUST A LITTLE YOUNGER.