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1969 moon landing.

(78 Posts)
shysal Tue 16-Jul-19 18:30:39

Can you remember where you were on this day, exactly 50 years ago?
I was holidaying on a farm on Anglesey.

grandtanteJE65 Fri 26-Jun-20 13:08:54

I was a schoolgirl of 14. I wasn't allowed to stay up to watch it.

LadyGracie Mon 25-May-20 20:31:43

Thanks Elegran I’ll go back to sleep.

Elegran Mon 25-May-20 20:11:48

LadyGracie The date on the original post is July 2019, so when the thread was started, it was 50 years. The thread went quiet after a bit, was posted on again in March 2020 for a while, then nothing until a couple of days ago.

LadyGracie Mon 25-May-20 19:14:26

51 years! I was married 50 years ago in 1970.

I think everyone ignores anything I write!

Brahumbug Mon 25-May-20 14:05:00

Cape Kennedy was changed back to Cape Canaveral but the launches are still from the Kennedy Space Centre.

LadyGracie Sun 24-May-20 20:52:02

Isn’t it 51 years?

LadyGracie Sun 24-May-20 20:48:17

I was 17 living in Malaysia with my parents. Those were the days!

Hatcham Sun 24-May-20 19:08:08

I was 9. Dad woke us up to watch.

tanith Tue 03-Mar-20 21:18:39

I sat in my MILs sitting room with my first daughter 4 mths old on my lap. I was dumbfounded and very excited we sat there for hours.

GagaJo Tue 03-Mar-20 20:37:35

I was 4 and remember getting up in the night, seeing my dad watching this strange thing on TV.

For years afterwards, I couldn't make sense of it. There WAS no TV at night then and I decided I'd imagined it. But of course, eventually I realised. It was the moon landing.

Callistemon Tue 03-Mar-20 20:10:57

I was 6 and didn't believe it
Gran was in her eighties and said that it wasn't happening!

Callistemon Tue 03-Mar-20 20:09:42

ps We had a black and white tv.

Callistemon Tue 03-Mar-20 20:09:21

We'd just bought our first house so I may have been stripping wallpaper, in between starting a new job and looking after Australian visitors.

Davidhs Tue 03-Mar-20 19:09:34

I was on holiday in a little place called Caersws in mid Wales the very first time I had been allowed to take my girlfriend (16) away, they did have TV.
LOL

Barmeyoldbat Tue 03-Mar-20 19:02:23

I was pregnant with my son and we went to a friends house and watched it on the telly.

rosenoir Tue 03-Mar-20 18:13:26

I was 11 and can clearly remember sitting on a bank with my friend, oddly considering my age,we were looking at the moon to see if we could see anything.

callgirl1 Tue 03-Mar-20 17:51:30

I was 7 months pregnant with my 4th child, and sat up all night with my husband, who was kept busy dealing with a wicklow on my thumb, and it was so painful it was more memorable than the moon landing.

Oopsminty Mon 02-Mar-20 20:22:36

I was 6 and didn't believe it

Chewbacca Mon 02-Mar-20 20:12:04

I was 15 and at school. I remember that it was discussed in the geography, history and science lessons. I didn't know it at the time but the man who was to become my DH had flown out to the States to watch lift off.

Trisha57 Mon 02-Mar-20 20:01:35

It was two days before my 12th birthday. My little sisterwas 3. I remember her being put to bed and my Dad saying he would wake me up in the night so that we could watch it together. And he did, and we did. I felt so grown up!

DameJudyClench Mon 22-Jul-19 07:54:15

I'd broken up from Primary school for the Summer and was staying with my grandparents smile

lemongrove Sat 20-Jul-19 22:21:10

Was glued to the tv at home, it was such an exciting event,
All the effort and expertise to get men to the moon, what a marvellous step ( leap! For mankind.)

crazyH Sat 20-Jul-19 21:37:29

Oh no ...senior moment ...she was 5 months old ?

crazyH Sat 20-Jul-19 21:34:11

At my mum's house, and pregnant with my eldest.

Peonyrose Sat 20-Jul-19 07:24:30

Home with a new baby. It was surreal.