40 years ago today...

[pamlicojack]

Amazing that I can still vaguely remember watching this (I'm only 41.).  Also that there's more computing power in my wristwatch than was probably on the entire mission...



Of course that's assuming you think it wasn't faked like several of my friends think...

[OldManC]

My dad had the whole family in front of the TV to watch it, including a guy who'd come over to take one of my sisters out on a date. He told the guy he wasn't about to let his daughter miss history in the making so he might as well come in too. 

[Freuds_Cat]

I was 5. I still remember watching it on the ol' black and white TV over at my aunt and uncles place.

[Dave W]

I remember seeing it over at a friend's house.

Another famous event happened about the same time, 40 years ago this past Saturday: Teddy Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne splashed down at Chappaquiddick.

[lowend1]

I remember seeing it over at a friend's house.

Another famous event happened about the same time, 40 years ago this past Saturday: Teddy Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne splashed down at Chappaquiddick.

Are you familiar with the law firm that handled Ted's case?

Weiner, Deiner, Dicker and Dunker

[Dave W]

Are you familiar with the law firm that handled Ted's case?

Weiner, Deiner, Dicker and Dunker

This is from National Lampoon.

[eb2]

Oddly enough, growing up in NE, I think Teddy's case of nerves that caused him to go home, sleep, get sober and call his lawyers before the cops made more headlines than the moon landing.  Ahh, the lion of the senate!

But I can recall Apollo 11 trading cards, with gum of course.

[Basvarken]

Amazing that I can still vaguely remember watching this (I'm only 41.) 

It's more likely you vaguely remember people telling you were watching this...
Very rarely people can remember things/events from a younger age than 4.

[uwe]

I was 8 when this happened and I remember it vividly, we even already had our first color TV by then, I remember the huge monster thing, almost a meter deep, it heated the whole room and the smell of the tubes - all very fitting for a moon landing. I watched it around midday with my mother and brothers (not sure whether it was live or a rescreening several hours after the fact) and remember thinking: "This is cool, it looks just like in the sci fi movies. And the astronauts are not sinking into quicksand either (that theory of the moon surface had been sported by some sources in advance to the landing)".

Of course I only learned later how I had been duped and it never really took place. 

[rahock]

Are you familiar with the law firm that handled Ted's case?

Weiner, Deiner, Dicker and Dunker

Hmmm.......I thought he used Dicker, Dunker and Runn
Rick

[uwe]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I get it.  You guys are nasty. 

[lowend1]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I get it.  You guys are nasty. 

Hard to believe that joke is not a standard in legal circles...

[rahock]

But I can recall Apollo 11 trading cards, with gum of course.

A gas station I used to go to gave away Apollo 13 glasses a few years later. It was in the days of my first apartment and I collected a whole set of them. In honor of the occassion I invented a very popular drink that was dubbed the Appolo 13. It was a very complex mixture consisting of 4 fingers of Scotch and one ice cube. Many said that that drink gave them a much better understanding of space travel.
Rick

[Dave W]

Hard to believe that joke is not a standard in legal circles...

Uwe is with a kindler gentler law firm, Sue Innocent & Bill Overly.

[rahock]

We really are nasty aren't we
Rick