Forty Years Ago

[Garry Russell]

We'll forgive you Joe

Eight is close enough.......have you ever known a seven year old that wasn't nearly eight??

Garry

[nigelb]

The ghostly grainy pics and the poor venetian blind Pacific live pics all watched on a 405 line monocrome TV made the moment.

Things now are too clean and the just like next door look of everything robs the magic.

I sat there speechless and awe inspired

Garry

I heard that NASA can't find their original tapes of the landing. It is thought that the original tapes were erased sometime in the eighties and re-used. The landing pictures we see today are digitally enhanced from various news sources.

I was between my junior and senior year at university (yea I am that old) and had been selected to help with freshman orientation in September. So i was back at school for an organizational meeting the day of the moon landing. Conveniently, my girlfriend at the time was also selected. That night, we both watched the moon landing in a mens dormitory that was open for summer students, crowded into a parlour room with 30 or so people, watching on an old B&W TV. One of the moments in history that you never forget where you were.

It was a bittersweet moment for me - as a child I was crazy about astronomy and space flight and I had always dreamed of being the first man on the moon!

Nigel²

[Garry Russell]

I was watching that last night about the tapes

It seems they did no wrong as that's the way it was done then............what about the guy that was told to burn the prototype Mosquito but decided to hide it as it was something special

Garry

[Paul K]

NASA is having the original footage of Apollo 11 restored...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8155045.stm

[Garry Russell]

Indeed Paul

What they have left

But the originals of the landing on the moon have been wiped. :-(

Garry