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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