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Nice write up Mike – thanks!
We didn’t have a TV at the time, so I watched the live broadcast on the B&W TV of the local milkman who I helped on the weekends and in my school holidays. I was astonished that he and his wife didn’t stay up to watch this historic event.
From memory, in the UK, the BBC and ITV Apollo 11 broadcasts started just before midnight on Sunday, 20th July with live images of Armstrong’s walk appearing just before 4:00am on Monday, 21st July. I vividly remember being glued to the TV, absolutely enthralled that I was witnessing this incredible event, of men walking on another solar system body, our Moon.
I rushed home afterwards and simulated the mission and lunar landing with my Airfix kit models of the Saturn V rocket and the Lunar Excursion Module.
Cheers
Dennis
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