54 years ago today!
 

The first Moon landing was 54 years ago today!

I am still impressed at how smart these people were!!

I vividly remember those wonderful days!

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It was exciting, but quite frightening. We never knew whether we would get them back to earth. They were exceptionally brave pioneers.

So proud of the people who did this.

Stayed up all night to watch it.
Those silent breaks waiting for the ship to emerge from the dark side of the moon.
Even Hitchcock couldn't equal the suspense of it.
It was an incredible achievement, and on the television.
That was the amazing part, they had problems getting tv pictures from the studio sometimes in those days, and to see coverage live from the moon was unthinkable.

Cannot honestly say I remember it as I was ten years old. Apollo 11 Mission Overview | NASA

Back then I worked with a sweet little older lady that was convinced that walk
on the moon was staged.
She went on to say that it was all filmed in Naveda somewhere. :shrug:

Even sweet little older ladies can be so wrong. The accomplishments of the Apollo program of 69’ were remarkable.

Actually, the first person on the moon was Alice Kramden.

Bang, zoom …… non stop from 328 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn New York, USA

More power in our cell phones than what was available in computers back in the day!🤓

True. By a factor of millions as I understand it.

Apollo 11 did have rudimentary onboard computer, "On board Apollo 11 was a computer called the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). It had 2048 words of memory which could be used to store “temporary results” – data that is lost when there is no power. This type of memory is referred to as RAM (Random Access Memory). Each word comprised 16 binary digits (bits), with a bit being a zero or a one. This means that the Apollo computer had 32,768 bits of RAM memory." (real clear science). Mission Control, where the big decisions were made, also had an equally rudimentary (by today's standards) mainframe computer but that stayed firmly on the ground, being about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Even both together, it wasn't much: They basically flew that thing by the seat of their pants.

It was a different world, and decidedly a different America, then.

Absolutely. That first foot on the moon was a feat unequalled in human history. For the first time, and for a few brief moments, our species had moved beyond our own planet.

Impressive though that that was, and like many others I sat glued to our 19" TV marvelling at it, I think the emotional punch of Apollo 8 was greater. That Christmas Eve reading from Genesis while Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon, with the gibbous Earth as seen from the spacecraft's window riding just over the horizon of the moon, was a sight never before seen, and to see it while listening to the words of the Creation account was overwhelming. It was a totally new perspective not only of the grandeur of creation but also just how small and insignificant our home is. Huge pride accompanied by deep humility, at the same time. I still get those same feelings whenever I think about that day.

In 1969 it took the Apollo 11 astronauts three days, three hours and 49 minutes to reach the moon
In 2022 it took the Artemis 1, an uncrewed craft, five days to reach the Moon's orbit
Strange how things have progressed over the years

I remember being in elementary school and watching these things on TV in the Classroom... It was a huge deal.