40 years ago

[Wingnut]

An event changed the world as we know it. No one lost their memory. Quite the opposite in fact. This event was imprinted on the minds of everyone who witnessed it on their television.

Hundreds of thousands of miles away, men from this planet first set foot on her only natural satellite within the time limit set by the late President Kennedy.
Was anyone here alive then to see it for themselves?

[Ace of Spades]

How it really happened!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mouUUWpEec0

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

Been watching the History Channel a good bit since they have been showing alot of shows on the Space Race and such. At 9 I'm totally watching Moonshot, Apollo Missions + UFO accounts = Holla.

[The Final Negotiator]

Alas, I was born a little too late for the first landing, and was too young to remember the others. However, I did get to see the Columbia shuttle's maiden flight, and I have been to Houston command and Cape Canaveral in Florida.

When I got my first multimedia PC, it included Grolier's Encyclopedia CD, with NASA videos... I probably wore out that spot of the disc...

                     V  <-Antennae
Ah yes, UFO's. I used to read and watch everything having to do with UFO's and the unexplained... (Talk about nightmare fuel!  ) Somewhere around the middle grades, I also read "War of the Worlds" cover to cover (by the way, great read, if I do say so myself). When "Star Wars: A New Hope" came out, it was right up my alley...

OK, so I'm old, but not too old, and still young at heart...

P.S. It's funny that UFO's and NASA are mentioned here, because astronauts have seen UFO's. No really...

[Leonard Shelby]

Sorry I came too late to testify that giant event.
One of the best of XX century.
I'm not so sure about its effective and concrete human importance, but all the same a great conquest.
Someone wrote that it killed the romantic image of the moon, changing it from the night light of the lovers in a mere floating rock. Oh well, aren't we all floating on a muddy rock???

[Sharpshooter005]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU

Heres a video of Buzz Aldrin punching a guy who denies the moon landings ever occurred

[Yuko-san]

^ That, sharp, is quite epic.

My grandpa helped out with the first lunar landing. So I hate it when people deny his work. He was even the leader for a NASA project. He also worked for the military designing missile defense systems during the Korean war. And one of these systems is still in use today. After he worked for the military he went to Nasa.

[Sharpshooter005]

Neat. Was it a guidance system or something?

[Yuko-san]

Yes. It was the missile guidance system my grandpa worked on for NASA. It was so the Mercury satellite and the Moon Satellites would circle the planet or moon.
When he did the moon landing stuff he helped make the guidance system that would help the Shuttle get to the moon successfully.

Gramps helped make the Titan missile defense system. It's still used today, usually in areas like Korea (where it's use was intended) and may be used on the front lines today. I'm not much into military stuff, or following news on wars, so I'm not entirely sure.