Question for older members: Did you watch Apollo 11 landing

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And what was you first thought

From what I know of my country, Poland was the only country in the Eastern bloc, which showed live landing and Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon.

My mother told me that the landing on the moon watching her sister my aunt, because she had tv, apparently the whole family and neighbors gathered at my aunt's small apartment to watch the first landing on the moon.


I once watched an interview with the old journalists, our Polish public television. Apparently, the head of the Polish Television, BTW dedicated communist, in the 60's decided that TVP will broadcast the Apollo 11 landing despite the strong objections of our beloved neighbor, the Soviet Union.
The guy then he lost his job, is still working on TV but not as a director.
Apparently he said that landing on the moon is too great events in human history to not be broadcast, and that he will not deprive Polish viewers of the event, because Soviets inferiority complex. Making Poland only Eastern Block country that made live broadcast of Apollo 11

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Actually, I did watch it. I just turned seven, and was transfixed. What's more, I lived in Houston in the same neighborhood (called Timber Cove) with Neil Armstrong, along with Lovell, Glenn, and Conrad, though Glenn had left by the time I moved there.

My parents tried hard to push me to go meet him, but being an aspie, I never did, and regret it. What Armstrong did was to send an autographed picture of himself to me--a kindness I will never forget. It hung on my bedroom wall until it got lost in one of my family's many moves.

While the space program doesn't interest me now, the moon landings are something I'll never forget.

I was five and watched it,I don't remember that much from it.It must have fascinated me,I had no problem being still and staring at it.An old B&W Zenith tv.

I was 2 and I watched it but I don't remember much beyond the faint memory of a memory mixed with recordings of the Moon landing I've seen over the years.

I was 12 and we had just moved house across the country. Father was worried the van with our furniture wouldn't be there in time, but it was and he set up the telly and his stereo and made an audio recording (reel to reel tape !) of the broadcast. We invited the neighbors over and it was a bit of a party. I thought it was the beginning of a long line of landings on the moon, building a base there, and then on to the stars. I thought it was moment that cut across country boundaries, and that it proved what technology could do. It was a bloody amazing moment in time.

I do recall the landing, unfortunately, I was not able to watch most of it because I had the measles. The doctor was afraid if I watched too much TV with this condition, I might go blind.

I was only 2 and I didn't understand what all the fuss was about but I got to watch it at my aunt and uncle's house and they had a big, fancy color TV with a "remote". The remote plugged in to the front of the TV with a cord and you turned the dial.

I was 8 years old and my first reaction was that I complained about the picture quality and then my parents scolded me and told me that the picture was coming from the Moon.

40 years later I was able to watch the Moon Landings in high definition because the astronauts also used 16mm movie cameras and the original film negatives were digitally scanned.

I was 12.

My older brother co-opted the family's TV to watch some stupid car race.

It happend while we were all on an epic summer cross country road trip from east coast to west coast when I was 14- visiting our far flung relatives.

We all watched it at our cousins' house in New Mexico.

Was plenty old enough to understand the significance of the event.

However the event is linked with lust in my mind- forbidden lust for my girl cousin who I would glance at constantly out of the corner of eyes while we were all staring at the set. Hadnt seen her in years, and we we both had become teenagers since we saw each other last.

In fact mentally caressing my girl cousin while she sat across the living room from me is about the only thing i remember about it.

I wish I could say "I will never forget that moment when the astronaut said 'this isTranquility Base. The Eagle has landed'". But I got that from Mom when I heard her express that sentiment the next day to the other grownups around the table. I didnt actually notice the moment when it was live on TV. I guess I was tormented by other thoughts at that moment.

I watched it on television.

Unless you have seen the Moon landing in Blu-Ray high definition you have not really seen the Moon landing.