Please Share Your Memories
When Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon in 1969, people all over the world were watching. We all knew it was a moment to remember.
We invite you to share your memories of that time with us here. In this 40th Anniversary year we want to capture a sense of what it was like to be witness to that moment.
Click on "comments" below and you can see what others have written.
Your comments may be used in publications, exhibits, online, etc. Feel free to give us your name and city. By posting here you give the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center the rights to use the materials.
We appreciate your willingness to share what that time was like for you.
We invite you to share your memories of that time with us here. In this 40th Anniversary year we want to capture a sense of what it was like to be witness to that moment.
Click on "comments" below and you can see what others have written.
Your comments may be used in publications, exhibits, online, etc. Feel free to give us your name and city. By posting here you give the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center the rights to use the materials.
We appreciate your willingness to share what that time was like for you.
posted by Moon Landing Memories at
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3 Comments:
I was a kid in 1969 - too young to really understand what was going on, but old enough to know it was cool.
I can remember going outside and looking up at the moon and thinking, "Wow, there are people walking around up there." On one hand it was hard to believe, on the other it was ordinary because I'd never known life without the space race. Since I had been aware, going to the moon was just an eventuality we hadn't yet realized. Until then.
My brother and 3 cousins and I, were at grandparents farm. We watched closly on tv then ran outside to see if we could see a dark spot where they were. I was oldest at 11. We will always remember that magical moment. We were allowed to stay up late.
Pat Thornton
I was 11 years old and we lived about 50 miles from the Kennedy Space Center. We watched every Apollo launch. We had watched the Eagle land on the moon and then went to bed. Mom woke us up right before the astronauts stepped out on the surface of the moon. We were like a Norman Rockwell painting - - the four kids sitting on the floor in front of the television and mom and dad on the couch. We went outside to see if we could see the astronauts walking on the moon! To us it was the most exciting thing in our lives and to this day all of us still share the memory of watching the astronauts land on the moon and then walk on the moon! It is a part of our childhood - - never to be forgotten.
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