[News] 50 Years Ago Today Man Landed On The Moon

Raleigh Chopper · Jul 20, 2019

Triggaaar said:
No they didn't

That's right, and they even thought about putting a 'Top Of The Pops' fish eye camera in the studio when showing the shots of the earth from the moon making it look round.
They thought it all through and millions of Muppets actually believed it happened.

Chicken Run · Jul 20, 2019

Raleigh Chopper said:
That's right, and they even thought about putting a 'Top Of The Pops' fish eye camera in the studio when showing the shots of the earth from the moon making it look round.
They thought it all through and millions of Muppets actually believed it happened.

It’s a miracle that there are at least a few Non “Muppets” like you to keep everything in check eh? What’s your view on the Indian and Japanese photos of the landing debris fields and moonscapes taken from their unmanned mission’s?

Nottseagull · Jul 20, 2019

wolfie said:
Funny school times. I watched it live in the early hours of the morning.

The thread is about the landing and I think it was bedtime, so Armstrong didn't go down the ladder until several hours later.

Triggaaar · Jul 20, 2019

Chicken Run said:
It’s a miracle that there are at least a few Non “Muppets” like you to keep everything in check eh? What’s your view on the Indian and Japanese photos of the landing debris fields and moonscapes taken from their unmanned mission’s?

Fake news.

The Antikythera Mechanism · Jul 20, 2019

Do the conspiracy theorists honestly believe that the USSR would have remained silent and said nothing if the moon landings were a hoax? They had the technology to follow and monitor everything NASA was doing. Any suspicion of doubt and they would've jumped on it and broadcast it to the world.

Raleigh Chopper · Jul 20, 2019

Chicken Run said:
It’s a miracle that there are at least a few Non “Muppets” like you to keep everything in check eh? What’s your view on the Indian and Japanese photos of the landing debris fields and moonscapes taken from their unmanned mission’s?

My view is that they should have been arrested for fly tipping.
If it was true, which it isn't.

Chicken Run · Jul 20, 2019

Raleigh Chopper said:
My view is that they should have been arrested for fly tipping.
If it was true, which it isn't.

Oh ok then.....

Eeyore · Jul 20, 2019

I was 4 months old. When they landed apparently I shat myself.

maltaseagull · Jul 20, 2019

graysgull said:
I was 14, and remember watching it happen live on a television in our classroom at Moulsecoomb Secondary..

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I thought that they actually landed at night on 20th and walked on the moon in the early hours of the 21st.
I was 16 and was sure we stayed up very late to watch it.

Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours 39 minutes later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later.
(02:56 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is
03:56 British Summer Time (BST))

maltaseagull · Jul 20, 2019

wolfie said:
Funny school times. I watched it live in the early hours of the morning.

Thank you! I was beginning to doubt my memory !

Icy Gull · Jul 20, 2019

We were driving to Spain from Germany and they landed on the moon just as we reached the Spanish border control. Staff were watching a tiny black and white tv in the control point and just waving everyone through. Normally they were really thorough and you could expect long delays, not that day or late evening as it was at the time. Remember it clearly as in an I remember where I was moment.

pasty · Jul 20, 2019

I would have been 4. And I have about as much interest in it today as I did then.

KZNSeagull · Jul 20, 2019

I was 3, nearly 4.

Have enjoyed all the programs that have been on this week, especially Chasing the Moon. My favourite quote was from one of the guys on Apollo 8 who said that all he wanted to do when they landed was go to the loo but had to go through all the welcome home stuff on the ship that picked them up. "That is my personal record. 3/4 of a million miles without having a crap".

Raleigh Chopper · Jul 20, 2019

KZNSeagull said:
I was 3, nearly 4.

Have enjoyed all the programs that have been on this week, especially Chasing the Moon. My favourite quote was from one of the guys on Apollo 8 who said that all he wanted to do when they landed was go to the loo but had to go through all the welcome home stuff on the ship that picked them up. "That is my personal record. 3/4 of a million miles without having a crap".

With my IBS in it's hard as coal stage at the moment I know how he felt.

Gwylan · Jul 20, 2019

I got up in the middle of the night to watch Armstrong step on the Moon. I was amazed that no-one else in my family wanted to watch it, I was conscious of history being made and was totally gripped.

When I got to school, most people I spoke to had got up to watch it - there were a few bleary eyes later that day.

A few months later, we got a physics teacher - a Kiwi called Mr Callum - who'd briefly worked at NASA: it made him some sort of super-hero in our eyes

Tony Towner's Fridge · Jul 20, 2019

I was four months shy of my thirteenth birthday. Still vividly remember being woken up at about 2am ish by my parents and my brother, sister, Mum,Dad and I sitting there watching the landing on a black and white TV. Fabulous to think I was in a small way part of it (ish).

TNBA

TTF

A mex eyecan · Jul 20, 2019

bleeding amazing isn’t it, 50 years ago with bugger all technology we got a man to the moon and back. 50 years on, sitting here in my kitchen and I can’t even get a bleeding mobile phone signal. So much for the advance of human capabilities

Chicken Run · Jul 20, 2019

Icy Gull said:
We were driving to Spain from Germany and they landed on the moon just as we reached the Spanish border control. Staff were watching a tiny black and white tv in the control point and just waving everyone through. Normally they were really thorough and you could expect long delays, not that day or late evening as it was at the time. Remember it clearly as in an I remember where I was moment.

Love that

Chicken Run · Jul 20, 2019

If anyone is interested in a good box set then Try HBO’s From The Earth To The Moon, a complete docudrama from Mercury right up to Apollo 17.

Silverhatch · Jul 20, 2019

8 years old and my dad woke me up to watch it just before 4 in the morning.

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