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Not an easy landing either. While on manual they looked for a spot only to have two seconds of fuel left in the end. Who said they weren't pilots? The right stuff.

I remember the moment well. I was in Pakse, Laos - outside, looking up at the moon and listening to the BBC on the radio.

Trumpers say it never happened

Same. All by myself.

One of the most awesome moments in my life. As a 15 year old, I was bursting with pride to be an American. That has dramatically changed as I'm not proud of this country under Trump and his MAGAts in any way.

Unfortunately, 56 years later we have to fight to preserve history and science from the far right anti intellectualists in power.

What a time of possibility.

Great day

I’d rather do more scopes and probes, thank you.

It gave me goose bumps to read their words.

if that Happened today: One small step for the White man, one giant leap backwards to the 1930's for mankind

I fondly remember following every minute of this mission.

Seems amazing to me that as a species we were curious, and talented, and brave enough to put matters of this planet aside and be like, "We want to go to there. How rad would that be? Let's do it." And then we actually did it.

Sitting in the crypto operations area of the comm building, Naval Communications Station, Sidi Yahia, Morocco, listening to the landing on AFRS.

I watched it with my dad. I was 5!

I remember I was 8 years old and we got of school to go home and watch it on tv 📺 was unbelievable

At 16 I was bursting with pride... so much has changed. Science doesn't matter, facts don't matter, truth doesn't matter. I mean seriously America, WTF!

Does anyone else feel like we’ve literally gone BACKWARDS since then?

It was such an impactful event! Everyone was so proud of the accomplishment. Certainly no one said we should have spent the money to improve society. The word hoax hadn't been invented yet.

I remember it.

I was in Nuremburg, Germany. It was night there. The city was quiet. Touchdown. The city exploded, cheers and car horns. Next morning, people kept coming up to me & shaking my hand. We -- the Americans and Germans -- had beaten the Russians to the Moon.

She also told me that thunder was God rolling watermelons under his bed...

It was amazing!

I watched from my grandmother's house and my uncle helped me film the TV with a super 8 camera. I still have the film. The 50th anniversary celebration in Washington was outstanding. A selfie in front of Armstrong's moon walk suit was the best!

I know it’s been said before but what I love about this photo is that it captures everyone who is alive, has lived, or will ever live in a single frame … minus 1.

It was an amazing time!

My family had just moved to Aviano Air Base in Italy & we were staying in a pensione and we watched the moon landing on the TV along with the Italian family who owned the house. One of my most memorable and happy days. I was 15 years old.

Within a year, they/nixon&hoover murdered Kent State University Students.

And I was one of them, it was way beyond science fiction and it was real.

I remember it well. Such a busy time. My late husband was Supervising tech Officer at NASACOM Australia in Canberra at the time. He was hardly at home. His 30th birthday was the day they walked on the moon.😊

I remember watching it as a kid on an old black and white TV. I have wanted to be a starfleet officer for most of my life.

I still remember trying to wake mom and dad up when they landed and when they walked on the moon. We had all stayed up to watch it. I was the only one who saw it. That was the first time I learned that reality could eclipse history.

Fair enough. The Apollo missions were very politically driven (space race/soviet union). The tremendous costs and the drive to funnel money into other space projects, I think, changed the push to continue to go to the moon.

On my mother’s birthday. She would be 98 today.

Amazed by the number of people I’ve met that don’t “believe” it happened. The reason we did not go back after Apollo 17 was the cost, shuttle $1 billion/launch to low earth orbit and ISS $150 billion to build. Church seems to be the common reason why they didn’t believe.

Happy moon cheer day!

Watch the movie Hidden Figures. It shows how brilliant the people in the space program are. First we orbited earth then we landed on the moon. Do not disrespect those people.

Stephen Kubrick was such perfectionist that he insisted on faking the Moon Landing on location.

Hahaha

I remember watching it in 6th grade class on a black and white TV. It promised so much for the future, which was delivered but in a way completely different to what I expected. Now get off my lawn, I have a cloud to yell at.

Artemis is an overpriced jobs program using ancient technology. It’s never going anywhere.

I'll always remember being in my parents' room with the windows covered while my dad took pictures of the TV. Sadly, he only lived five years more, but I'm sure he would have gotten a kick out of the collectible DVD set I would have bought for him one Christmas!

It was awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, I cannot say I feel the same way about the current situation at NASA. It seems a hollow goal to go back to the moon...why?? Been there, done that. And please spare me the BS of going to Mars. We already know life is UNSUSTAINABLE there. Save THIS planet!!!!

America's actual greatness was always founded in science.

I remember watching with my grandfather who was born in 1885. Saw the advent of planes and cars and man walking the moon

I remember watching. Anybody who says it was faked is an idiot.

Fake

My dad brought the family to a friend’s house because he had a color TV. But it was broadcast in black-and-white. Looking back I always think that’s kind of funny.

And we were glued to our TV sets.

I was eight. Youngest of six kids, my alcoholic dad made sure all of us sat in front of the tv to watch. He usually didn’t care what we did, but this he insisted. Thanks Pop!

I was lying on the family room floor, Mom and Dad and Marg all in chairs as we watched it happen. Horrible grainy black and white images with minutes of delay but our team was on another world. It was the true meaning of awesome.

I remember!

My dad and I stayed up all night for it!

We once dreamed big and accomplished amazing things

And what is absolutely incredible about this picture is that in the frame Is every single living thing, ever. Living and dead, expect for the photographer. So, who took that picture?

That was me, 12 years old, in front of my grandma’s TV.

EVERY person and creature that ever walked the Earth in one picture, except Mike Collins. ✌🏼

At this moment, on July 20, 2025, people around the world hold their breaths, waiting to hear the words "Washington, the list are public, he is arrested.”

I remember this well, I was very young but it changed my life

You aren't kidding about holding our breath. This was groundbreaking. Exciting and scary at the same time.

Pregnant Mary and I were at her parents house watching the live feed. I took a photo of the BW TV as Armstrong took his “small step.”

🫡🫡🫡 American pride was dripping off the walls then…. now it doesn’t exist

A few more Neil Armstrongs and a lot less Farages, Putins & Trumps wouldn’t go amiss right now. That’s for sure.

I'll never forget it! #MoonLanding

we did not land on the moon, nor did we even circle it. it is impossible for humans to transit through the Van Allen radiation belt without a huge, lead-shielded ship to protect against solar radiation. that ship would be have to be built in an earth orbiting shipyard, many years in the future.

A never to be forgotten moment… sadly under tramp trump the convicted criminal and toxic sex pest USA is now a shadow of its former self.

Remember it so well as if it were yesterday.

It really highlights how low America has fallen under Mad King Donnie's regime.

And now NASA's funds have been cut.

Remember like it was yesterday!

I remember this, went outside (I was 7 yrs old) and looked up at the full moon in the summer sky and was captivated.

I was at the American embassy in Paris listening. The crowd cheered.

And now here we are, giving billions to a narcissist billionaire to blow up his toys over the sacred island of Hawaii. Promising future generations of poverty because he wants to go to an uninhabitable planet.

I remember watching it with my folks, our whole family around the TV watching it. I still remember Walter Cronkite’s reaction, the man was literally giddy.

It always blows my mind watching the approach and knowing that the count down is NOT the distance to land on the moon... It's how little fuel they had left. Amazing, top tier work by heroes all around. Give DOD budget to education. Give education to NASA Run DoD on NASA budget Just 1 year.

🇺🇸 let’s take it back

Yes, we did! We were with another couple who'd married a year earlier as had We. The year-long frozen wedding topper cake was delicious as we watched this amazing event!

Incredible photo by Astronaut Michael Collins, the only person living at that moment that's not in the frame.

📌

I was 4yrs old, sitting in front of our black & white TV.

Four days after my sixth birthday.

Same age as you on that day. Delerious, watching on my small B/W TV. Same ambition too, although I'd resigned myself to just someday making it into space in low Earth orbit. I knew back then the energy levels for an Alcubierre Warp bubble or anything similar were centuries if not millenia away.

Thank you 💙

I remember watching that on TV back when I was proud to be American.

I saw a couple of comments to that effect from liberals, too. As a liberal, I'm upset. LOL

Here we are, nearly 53 years after the last time a human set foot on the moon. It’s tragic and embarrassing that we haven’t been back, yet.

“One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.”

Thoroughly recommend this #BBC podcast series covering the landing with real mission control audio and interviews: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I watched it on a neighbor's TV.😊

Maybe it was in 2009, I don't remember, but you re-broadcast the moon landing recordings, minute by minute exactly as they would have happened. I roped in my 6 and 9 year old girls to the excitement of those original recordings. Damn powerful stuff, even 40 years on.

It is the first news event I saw that I still remember. I was seven, and at summer day camp, and they wheeled out about big black and white TV and we all witnessed history.

Michael Collins Michael Collins Michael Collins

10 years old in a Snack Bar on PEI Canada. Goose bumps

Back in the day when tax dollars went towards science that uplifted everyone rather than billionaire pocket books.

I was watching in Netherlands with my brother and parents, in the middle of the night. I was 11.

I remember my dad putting the TV in the kitchen for this can't remember why? But we watched it in the kitchen

Chemtrails, space lasers controlling weather, …

That's why I don't eat sausage.

The government never ever lie to us. Missed this one

I watched it as an 8 year old in our basement in Halifax Nova Scotia. So sad that that era, where America did things that were admired the world over, appears to be gone for a long time. But the billionaires are doing well, so… (So fuck the money hoarding billionaires)

Well... First EARTHLINGS to set foot on the moon!Maybe there are other humans on other planets out there... ya never know.

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I remember!

Watched the historic event on a portable tv, grainy black and white image; I was laying in my bed at the Harrisburg Hotel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania I was 21

Thank you

Back in the day when the USA respected its allies and the work they contributed to times like these. If The Dish was required now, the temptation would be strong to pull the plug at the most inconvenient time.

I remember it well. It was a family event to watch it.

Government “work” at its best👍👍