What do Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson...

[RICHARD]

...have in common?


They both have 'moon walked'!


The 40th anny of the moon landing is next week and I was thinking about the stories or thoughts about this event that anyone has.

I do remember all the excitement about it and I remember standing in a store, in the TV section watching one of the walks with a bunch of people. It was kinda cool and I that is one of the things that really got me interested in all things flown, in the air and in space!

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Buzz Aldrin has a book out, and did a rap song recently, about his life after becoming know and the second man who walked on the moon. He battled alcoholism and other personal problems in the years following the landing.

That looks like great story!

[Karen]

I was only 4 years old, but I do remember watching it on television, because my older brother and sister came and got me, and sat me on the floor in between them in front of the small (by today's standards) black and white TV in the livingroom, and said "You HAVE to watch this. It's important." So I did, and I remember!

[pomtzu]

I remember when it was, but didn't get to watch it. My ex and I and kids got back from vacation (showing off new baby to grandparents in RI) that day. We raced against the clock to make it home in time - walked in the house and turned on the t.v. - and it blew a tube.
Yup - those were the days when those dinosaur televisions had tubes!

[RICHARD]

Happy MOONday!

[boomersooner]

I had just turned 8, and I remember my mom making me come in and watch it because of the historic moment.......I'm glad she did!!

[kokopup]

I worked for Nasa in the days leading up to putting men on the moon. While the average American may have understood the historical significants of that day, very few really appreciated the work and preparation that led up to that day. I worked on the Saturn 5 and know of all the problems that had to be overcome to meet Kennedy's deadline of a man on the moon before the end of the decade. There were many hours of work and lives sacrificed to get us there.

I remember attending a lecture by Wernher Von Braun in 1965 when he gave his vision of how we would put men on the moon. I remember thinking how impossible this was and all that could go wrong to prevent this from happening. The fact that we did put men on the moon in 1969 with the technology of that day is truly amazing. The Young people today take technology so for granted and haven't a clue what it takes to enable them to TEXT their friends across thousands of miles. If you told the average young person today we would put men on Mars tomorrow they would probably give you a shocked look and ask "you mean we haven't already been"

I am a little surprised at richard comparing Neil Armstrong to Michael Jackson... Comparing the two Moon walks would be like me comparing a monkey at the circus to Lance Armstrong because both had ridden a bicycles.