one of those few days where you will always remember exactly where you were when you heard or saw something.

i was 16.

i was standing (couldn't sit i was so excited) in my mom and dads living room in front of the TV when neil armstrong hit the ground.

i grew up with the whole mercury, gemini and apollo missions, those first 7 guys were heroes to a whole lot of kids back then.

woodstock was only a month away...........................if i was 2 years older............................

It was a hot summer day in Queens NY like today, us kids were excited and had our Gulf Gas lunar module cardboard toys in hand to watch the moon landing. Saw it in my parents basement on a B&W Zenith tv and it blew the mind of this then 8 year old.
Back then we all wanted to be an astronaut. I still wouldn’t mind it.

On family vacation with my father and younger brother in a downtown Butte, Montana, hotel. We did a lot of station wagon camping, but that night we found a hotel with TV. I seem to remember the television reception wasn't all that wonderful, but it didn't really matter after waiting my entire childhood for that moment.

Me too, I watched the landing on a black and white tv in Flushing, Queens. I was 12 at the time.

I'm 49.

This is the lunar lander all of us kids in the Whitestone area had in July of 1969! It was actually pretty well made when you put it together.

I was in my mommy's belly but any time I see it, it gives me chills. I try to imagine myself seeing it on television at the time. I guess you can't express just how monumental it was.

Me, Jimmy, Mickey and Eddie with the parents in the living room. We had gone down to Cape Canaveral in December of ‘68 and took the tour of the whole complex. We stayed in the Everglades and when Apollo 8 orbited the moon we were in front of the TV while the astronauts read from the book of Genesis.i was eight and NASA decides to call the Apollo 10 command module and the lunar landing module “Charlie Brown” and “Snoopy”! We were full of glee. We were all consumed with the moon landing fever till July. Probably the happiest I had ever been in my young life, same for Jimmy.

In a campground in Maine on our way up to Nova Scotia. The owner of the campground put out a small television so we could watch it on a chilly, drizzly night.

Almost positive this is a picture of a statue commemorating the launch site of the original 7 Mercury missions in the foreground and maybe Apollo 8 on the launch pad in the distance. Mick thinks it may be Gemini 5 as we had taken a trip in August of ‘65 also. You guys all know who would know for sure......Jimmy.

Watching the landing at my friends house. Met Buzz Aldrin a few months later when a parade was put together for the hometown hero. I was a freshman in the H.S. marching band then. He walked down thanking personally all the parade participants before we started. He was like 10 to 15 yards from me. The man who piloted the lunar module and placed the US flag in the lunar surface. I never met any the Beatles but this comes in as a great replacement!

Also among the unborn. But I have had a lifelong fascination with the moon landings!

Twenty-one years old and glued to a 19" color TV that night, holding my breath. I'll never forget.

I was only three at the time, but we were hanging out in the “blue area “ of the moon

This statue is at the entrance of LC-14, where the last four Mercury missions launched. The first two, carrying Alan Shephard and Gus Grissom, launched from LC-5

That's probably an unmanned Atlas missile, as this photo is facing the Atlantic Ocean (i.e. east) and the major launch pads to the south (LC-11, LC-12 and LC-13) were, I believe, used only for unmanned launches.

Gemini missions were launched from LC-19, to the north, and Apollo 8 was launched from pad 39A, which was well to the north.

The area is considerably more overgrown these days. If you ever go to the Kennedy Space Center, be sure to reserve a space on the "Early Space" bus tour that goes to this whole area of Cape Canaveral, including a stop at the restored blockhouse at LC-5 and LC-34, where the Apollo 1 accident occurred.

I was 1 years old

Probably on the floor in front of the TV with my older brother Tom watching the moon landing.
I had just turned six at the time. My memories include seeing a black and white moon mission, but
it might have been the first one, maybe some of the later (limited color) missions.

Wish I knew how to put a photo into a post. I've got three Cleveland newspapers that just turned 50 years old that I'd be happy to photograph the front pages and put up here. I've become a slow learner in my latter days.

RIP, Chris Kraft.

https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft