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07/16/2009
Watch: Lift-off of Apollo 11 Moon Mission on 40th Anniversary
Today is the 40th anniversary of the moon mission's lift-off. The Big Picture has a great gallery of photos. I was two at the time, so don't remember any of this, but would surely have been glued to the set like everyone else.
Watch the lift-off (as well as remastered footage of the moon walks), AFTER THE JUMP...
Also, NASA has remastered the moon landing footage. Videos below.
Posted 1:00 PM EST by Andy Towle in News, Space | Permalink
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Yeah...that's it. I was 2, sure. That sounds good. I'm gonna go with that.
But for those of us who weren't 2 (and I wasn't THAT much older) it was a really amazing time. Everything stopped. EVERYONE watched, all around the world. Imagine 9/11 but bigger, more historic ... and a GOOD thing.
Very few human beings get to live through a event that honestly can be said to be monumental for the species. I always think it's cool to be able to remember a time BEFORE before the moon landing and to have experienced that paradigm shift.
Posted by: Buster | Jul 16, 2009 1:25:23 PM
i was 12 when i watched the first moon landing, 7/20/69. i watched with my grandmother who could remember one of the first cars coming to our town in 1899, for her grandfather's funeral. she had lived long enough to see the first car in town and to see men land on the moon. she died in december '69, but her life had seen quite an explosion in technology as well as the vast social changes during that period—WW1, WW2, Viet Nam; the Jazz age, the Charleston, Bobby Soxers, the hippies; from her first Ford Model T in 1915 to her last Rambler Ambassador from the mid '60s.
Posted by: casey | Jul 16, 2009 1:36:52 PM
My father worked on this mission when we lived in Houston back in the day. He worked for NASA through GE as an engineer. I remember clearly watching this on TV and making a High 8 movie of the television screen while being watched at our home in SE Houston. There was a party going on to celebrate this momentous occasion. I used to have a paper model of the lunar landing module. Good times.
Posted by: tooboot | Jul 16, 2009 2:16:21 PM
I was living in Hawaii, where my dad was stationed at Hickham AFB. Totally awe-inspiring, I built a bunch of Apollo and Gemini models and my dad helped me with the painting and decals.
We Came In Peace For All Mankind.
Posted by: Henry Holland | Jul 16, 2009 2:23:35 PM
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon---Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeoBcVQSp4&feature=related
WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON---NATIONAL HOAX!
Posted by: Jason | Jul 16, 2009 3:40:47 PM
My mom was allowed to go up to the top of Apollo 8 while pregnant with me as my Dad was working for TWA as an engineer in the VAB building. One of his projects was to stop clouds from forming in the VAB building which was and still might be the largest building in the U.S. We have a bunch of Family pictures while we watched Apollo 11 in Cape Canaveral. My mom said it was really cool and special living in Cocoa Beach back then. Even while we were doing the last missions to the moon in the early 70s my Dad was working on the guidance systems for a new Craft called the Space Shuttle. I only hope we make the next step and go to Mars in my lifetime.
Every kid I knew back then all said they wanted to grow up to be an Astronaut.
Posted by: Jason | Jul 16, 2009 4:29:55 PM
The restoration is rather lackluster.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Gavin Elster | Jul 16, 2009 4:49:25 PM
How would you say is compares to the restoration of Vertigo, Gavin. ;-)
Posted by: Hank | Jul 16, 2009 5:11:46 PM