OT - Apollo 11 replay...
Zbigniew Koziol
softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jul 17 19:08:18 UTC 2009
James Knott wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>
>> A website of interest to space flight junkies:
>>
>> http://wechoosethemoon.org/
>>
>> The site does require Flash 10.
>>
>> This site is playing audio recording from exactly 40 years ago today,
>> so you can hear the recordings of the first manned flight to the Moon.
>>
>> Great stuff, but in one way it does make me feel old, as I remember
>> were I was on the evening June 20th 1969 (sitting in my Grandparent's
>> cottage near Ottawa along with a bunch of neighbours, all watching a
>> modest size B&W TV seeing pictures from the surface of the Moon).
>>
>>
>>
>
> I went to a friends house, where they'd rented a colour TV just for the
> event.
>
>
In Poland that show was also the prime entertainment on that day, a
direct transmission, as far as I remember (not a something usual).
Before black-white TV, one of the first in neighborhood. Some neighbors
were there. I was 8 years then.
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