Comments on: Where Were You 40 Years Ago? (Part 2)

By: ravenbiker

ravenbiker — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:59:08 +0000

Reading this, remembering this day 40 years ago, feeling the joy, the wonder, of a 5 year old, I relive it as tears well up in my eyes.

A great moment in human history.

Thank you for blogging this.

By: David

David — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:56:01 +0000

I was barely 4, but I still remember it (even if I didnt understand the difference between it and science fiction programs then, but my parents tried to explain, and I understood that this was important and real-life, and knew even then that I wanted to be a part, however small of it).
It was one of the earliest milestones of my life, and shaped my future life

The questions are..
Why is there no manned permanent
moonbases?
Why havent anybody walked on Mars yet?
Why is there only a pityful
spacestation to show for these 40
years on the human side of space
exploration?
(probes and satellites are our
forerunners, but we need to get out
there ourselves too)

We should be out there spreading life
and habitats in our solar system since
decades ago!

—-
The future is not what it used to be!…

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:36:33 +0000

I was two days old. At every “milestone” anniversary of the Moon landing, I’m reminded that I’m a decade older!

By: Jeve (aka John and Steve)

Jeve (aka John and Steve) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:11 +0000

That was great. I wasn’t born yet, but thanks for taking me back there.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:55:45 +0000

“I’ve seen everything from the horse and buggy to the moon…”

That is almost, if not exactly what my mother has said about herself. She turned 95 just 5 days ago. So the moon landing was sort of a birthday present for her.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:16:19 +0000

I was also 8 years old at the time, and like Jim I decided I was going to be an astronaut. Today it seems very strange to me that the dramatic pinnacle of technological achievement happened 40 years ago and despite the supposed rapid advancement of technology since then nothing remotely as exciting has happened. In many ways the ultimate achievments did happen in the 60′s, the fastest rocket planes, etc. – no one seems to have the drive to set records that they did then.

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:27:08 +0000

“I’ve seen everything from the horse and buggy to the moon,” she said, “And no one will ever live a different lifetime in history with more progress than that.”

Such wisdom, and so true. We have seen amazing progress is our lives, but the kind of progress (and for that matter, horror) those 100 years brought us will not be equaled in a long time.

By: tavdy79

tavdy79 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Half of me was with my mum, the other half with my dad.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:42:49 +0000

Oh my God! That would have driven me up the wall!

By: Steve T.

Steve T. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:38:10 +0000

Where was I? In a state of extreme frustration.

I was twelve that summer, and had followed the space program avidly; I had meticulously built a plastic model of the Gemini capsule, painted and decaled with loving care.

But by chance that week was the week I was scheduled to spend at a YMCA canoe camp. We were miles from a TV, and the best we could do was cluster around the camp director’s car and listen to the dashboard radio.

And by the time I got home the next week, Apollo XI was old news and no longer on TV. It was a long time before I got to see the “one small step.”