40th Anniversary of the Lunar Landing

[dread pirate jimbo]

Well, if they proved it happened on Mythbusters, it must be true!

Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Way cool!

Happy Anniversary, NASA, and congrats on that extraordinary feat!

[What Exit?]

Wow, one of my first memories. It seems like we have done so little since in space.

[OneCentStamp]

Wow, one of my first memories. It seems like we have done so little since in space.

It almost feels like our last great space achievement; most of my big memories of the space program since then involve disaster.

[What Exit?]

Wow, one of my first memories. It seems like we have done so little since in space.

It almost feels like our last great space achievement; most of my big memories of the space program since then involve disaster.

I remember well the joint US and USSR missions. It gave me hope for the peaceful end of the cold war and for our future in space.

[Fenris]

Wow, one of my first memories. It seems like we have done so little since in space.

Ditto.

My dad got Kentucky Fried Chicken, set up an "indoor picnic" and we watched it together. He told me at the time I'd always remember it and damn if he wasn't right.

[Glazer]

They say everyone loses the idealism of our youth. It would seem they are right. We need to go to Mars to stay.

[Baker]

I watched with my grandparents and my sisters. Grandpa, being born in October of 1900, was just barely in the 19th century. In his lifetime we went from horse and buggy to the moon.

I was so keyed up when Armstrong got out of the LEM that my brain and my eyes couldn't connect. I never took my eyes from the TV, but all I "saw" was blobs of black, white, and gray. Later on I walked outside. It was night in North America, and I looked up at the moon, in a clear sky, and said to myself '' There's people up there!"