This is the cover of a 33 1/3rd EP that was in the shops in Singapore within a fortnight
It is one of my prized collections
I also have the Apollo 11 patch on my observing suit
To answer the question of where I was when Apollo 11 landed. I was in my parents living room with 15 or so other kids and we were watching the coverage live on television. I was 5 years old, had no idea what I was looking at but was told it was important. I can only just remember seeing the event.
I was about 4 at the time and living in a caravan by a river roughly 1200km northwest of Perth. Tv?? Hah we didn't even have a road, my Dad was building that .
Cheers to everyone for their stories, have enjoyed reading them, wish I could've been part of the moment
Cheers also to Ron for the scanned EP cover, will study that.
I do have a couple of newspaper covers from the following day, with colour photo's, they were given to me by a neighbour. Have hidden them away.... somewhere
I was well and truly at work. Someone had brought in a small TV and we all sat in a meeting room adjacent to the canteen and watched it all happen.
I remember thinking at the time of my dad and how he would take it. He was born in 1897 and the technological progress that had been made in his lifetime must have been beyond belief. Up until a few years before that time, he believed it wasn't possible. As the technology developed and Sputniks became the go, he accepted that to get to the moon was possible but getting back just was out of the question. Then it happened. And he saw it himself on television.
He was born in 1897 and the technological progress that had been made in his lifetime must have been beyond belief.
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Then it happened. And he saw it himself on television.
Robert
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the great story!
As you state, the technological progress from the first flight by the Wright Brothers
to Apollo was staggering.
A particularly poignant story was that the night before they lifted off to fly
around the Moon, the Apollo 8 crew had a surprise visit from Charles
Lindbergh and his wife. At lift-off, the Saturn V first-stage consumed every
second ten times the entire fuel Lindbergh used in the Spirit of St Louis on his 1927
New York to Paris flight!
I was working on the 19th floor of 60 Market Street in Melbourne for the English Scottish & Australian Bank finance arm Esanda. B&W TV set up for everyone in the staff lunch room to see the first steps on the moon. Awesome then, and still is today!
Times have changed a bit, but I'm still wondering what I'll be when I grow up!
Chris
The ES&A bank. Now that takes me back! A time when banks gave service, interest, and didn't charge account keeping fees. They accepted that a small part of the interest they earned using "your money" was adequate recompense. But I guess that's another topic.
Robert
As I said, times have changed, and being in the grumpy old man age group, I am allowed to suggest that whilst you and I have changed for the better, times have not!
This is the cover of a 33 1/3rd EP that was in the shops in Singapore within a fortnight
It is one of my prized collections
I also have the Apollo 11 patch on my observing suit
Hi there all,
14 years old, in the science room at school watching it on the telly.
Our maths teacher was flitting around excitedly trying to take photo's of the tv screen.
I was totally over awed by the whole thing.
Also sat up all night watching apollo 8 orbiting the moon. Fell asleep on the couch in the early hours of Christmas morning only to be woken up by my little sisters opening their presents.
Amazing time!
Have just joined this forum to find a little encouragement and guidance and have already found plenty of helpful stuff for someone trying to rekindle a part of themselves that was left behind quite a few years ago.
My darling Son organised the family to buy me a telescope (Orion 130mm)
because he knew I'd always been interested in Astronomy.
