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Probably taking a dump in my diapers

Don't remember, I just remember I got sick of hearing about it. I was not quite 8 years old.

I was 10, probably walking beans that day.

Boot camp, Great Lakes, Ill

I was sitting in a waiting room at a large Ford agency in Burbank, Calif., waiting for the company to finish some work on my Ford 500. I watched it on the agency's teevee in the waiting room.

L.W.

in my first year of college at florida

Playing 2nd base for the Cubs.



In Little League

I was at Fort Greely Alaska probably policing buffalo chips in the company area.

Stand by for...

It was FAKE!

Lol.

Already been stated in this thread.

I don`t remember the whole year of 1969 .

Galpin?

I was at my grandfather's house watching the television when Neil Armstrong came down the ladder to step onto the surface. CBS was running a science fiction retrospective to fill the time between the Eagle's landing and Neil stepping onto the surface. I had vowed to stay up the whole time watching the television from landing to lift off, but a tube burned out in the set around 2:00 in the morning. My father wouldn't let me go to my grandfather's house till after sun up. I was 14 at the time.

As an aside, I met Neil many years later at a dinner meeting hosted by a local chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Scott Crossfield was speaking about his experiences flying the X-15. My wife and I got there just before the meeting was scheduled to start, and we were at the last table in the back corner. A woman came over to ask if the last two seats were taken. It was Jan Armstrong. Neil came in a minute later to join her. He was very quiet during dinner, and let Jan do most of the talking till the ladies left the table between dinner and the start of Crossfield's talk. Once it was just us engineers he came to life, and we had an interesting discussion of recent developments in the space program. At one point in his presentation Crossfield made a reference to best selling fantasy novelist Chuck Yeager. I thought Neil would fall off his chair laughing and clapping. Crossfield and Armstrong being Navy pilots and Yeager being Air Force led to a certain amount of rivalry in the test pilot community at Edwards, and Yeager's autobiography mentioned several less than flattering incidents in Armstrong's time at Edwards.

Summer job of pipeline construction while in college.

Amazing how they got through that asteroid belt with the computers they had then, one tenth or less powerful as our cell phone computers now.

Not seeing how the moon rover stayed tied to the lunar module on the trip. It was way to big to get it through the hatch.

Strangely, when NASA was asked recently why there have been no more moon landings, an official said they had "lost the recipe". Hummm.

Sitting with my great aunt and uncle and family at their farm in Rock Creek B. C. Watching on the tv

I was 10 years old, and my mom planted us kids in front of the T.V. to witness history. In retrospect, I’m glad she did!

In the day room of Bachelor Officers' Quarters, Laredo AFB. At the start of flight training.

The video footage of the landing was actually broadcast from the moon in pretty high definition. But in a format that commercial TV news guys couldn't use. When it was fed through some kind of "translation" gear, it came out looking awful. But there was no time to correct it.

No it was not faked.

At a roadside diner getting something to eat on the way back after a driving school at Daytona Intl Speedway. I was part of the pit crew for the son of the Chevy dealership where I was working.

Trans Am was big at the time and some of the mechanics put together a Camaro for racing.

Asteroid belt between the Earth and moon????

I was 12 and at church camp. I remember the counselors telling us about it.