What were you doing when they landed on the Moon ?

[david ellwood]

I was two but apparently my parents bought a television especially for the event and our house had most of the street inside that night.

 

[Jamie]

Watched it live at school, I was 14.

Assuming you were in the UK, 3:56am is a little early for school?

 

[wow&flutter]

I was 6 1/2 and my parents woke me up to watch it and although the grainy black and white pic wasn’t great I still remember it.

 

[stephen bennett]

Same here. Dad stayed up with me even though he had to go down t’pit at 6 am the next day. No really.

I’m forever grateful.

Stephen

 

[SteveS1]

Dumping in my nappy probably.

Nothing has changed then, boom boom. Was kept up to watch it.

 

[Tim Jones]

Being conceived.

Apparently.

 

[Swamp Thing]

I was sat working on my laptop this afternoon, headphones on and random play selected and this popped up, on this day of all days...

 

[slavedata]

I was at boarding school and the head had us woken in the middle of the night to watch it.
Good call we were all well impressed.

 

[MikeMA]

I was a 19 year old student doing a degree in maths, statistics and computing science at Woolwich Polytechnic. I can't remember what I was doing at the time of the actual landing, but I'm slightly ashamed to say that I can remember being miffed during the weeks prior to the launch at being dragged along to extra lectures on rocketry and transfer orbits put on by, it seemed to me at the time, an overenthusiastic lecturer in ballistics. What an ungrateful pleb I was!

 

[Aethelist]

What a great year 1969 was.

Wished I'd been in that London to see this going on live at the time...

 

[Still]

 

[martin clark]

I was still in one of Nabokov's 'eternal darknesses', so missed the whole thing; a damn shame.

 

[jackbarron]

Saw it at boarding school in the Lecture Theatre on a smallish black and white television. Can't remember if I shared a spliff out in the grounds beforehand, but it would make sense.

Jack

 

[Bob McC]

I was 18 and stayed up all night for it.

And I never would have thought that my 3 kids aged 32, 30 and 27 have not seen a return yet in their lifetimes.

 

[Tony L]

I was six, but can remember seeing the re-runs in the day time. I was (and have remained) rather obsessed by it.

 

[Dozey]

I was 12 and stayed up to watch it. I was space mad at the time

 

[davidsrsb]

I was 11 then and it was the first time in my life that I stayed up all night.
I still remember watching it, a major life event

 

[sean99]

I was a couple of weeks old. Don't really remember much of it.

 

[richardg]

I was six, but can remember seeing the re-runs in the day time. I was (and have remained) rather obsessed by it.

Did it really happen?

 

[Weekender]

I was two and a half so most likely had an early night.