Coming up on 50th anniversary of the 1st moon landing

[Doctor_Jackson]

@panache45

And are you a purported “doctor”?

[sub]Someone had to say it.[/sub]

Actually, yes. And many people have said it.

My memory says we watched the landing in my elementary school class, but that could be completely wrong.

[Baker]

It could depend on where you were at the time. I watched it here in the central time zone of the US and it was well after dark.

[Xema]

@Limmin

Was a high school junior when the Challenger blew up. That was the first big blow to the space program and the first fatalities after the long years of nothing but success.

NB: Apollo 1 - Jan 27, 1967. RIP Gus Grissom, Ed White & Roger Chaffee.

[Xema]

@Doctor_Jackson

My memory says we watched the landing in my elementary school class, but that could be completely wrong.

Unlikely, given that it was a Sunday in July (not when elementary schools tend to be in session).

[Xema]

@Baker

I watched it here in the central time zone of the US and it was well after dark.

Landing was at 3:17 pm CDT. Armstrong’s first step on the moon was at 9:56 pm.

[Doctor_Jackson]

@Xema

Unlikely, given that it was a Sunday in July (not when elementary schools tend to be in session).

You don’t know my school record!

Actually, now I’m quite sure I conflated that memory with one of the other landings that we did watch in school. No idea where I was for Armstrong’s one small step.