July 17th, 2009 
joel Where were you when Neil Armstrong took that “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?
This 7-year-old was sitting on the TV room floor in our West Erie home watching Jules Bergman explaining the maneuvers on ABC. As NASA celebrates the 40 year history of the first moon landing, they have released digitally-enhanced footage of this historic event. Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News gives us some perspective of what it took to bring those pictures from the moon back home:
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NASA has gone all out to remember what is probably it’s finest hour. A full 40th anniversary site has been created, including a fascinating real time radio stream of all transmissions between the spacecraft and the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
An amazing tribute of technology and media.
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Joel,
I was nine in my parents’ living room in our new house, less than a year old. The video still captivates me, what an amazing feat it was, and still is.
I’d just like to meet the guy that erased the other footage…what would his name be ? Maybe oops.
Big Guy, I remember, like you do, lying on the living room floor that night, watching events unfold from the surface of the Moon. The FREAKING Moon! It was amazing and utterly transfixing! I’ve been watching the videos from that era all day today, remembering with the same childlike glee and awe what we, as Americans, can do when we set our minds to it. I was such a total NASA geek back then. I would get up in the middle of the night if there was something happening with a space flight to watch on tv. I remember watching Cronkite mostly, but also Jules Bergman on ABC and Roy Neale on NBC.
I was poked fun at just yesterday afternoon for watching because I am still a NASA geek. I guess some things never change.