What do Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson...

[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.

[RICHARD]

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.

In no way was the comparison meant to lessen NA's accomplishment. IT was meant more tongue in cheek than anything else.

As the date drew near I was thinking about that summer and how the anny of the Moon Walk and the person who made up the 'moonwalk' were in the news. (Also Walter C passing away so close to the date!)


Of course, Lance and the monkey do have riding a bicycle in common, up until the point where you have to squeeze the ape into that form fitting yellow jersey, then, all bets are off?


Thanks for all your work with NASA, the county, and the space program.


And thanks to you, I'll be out tonight looking for the ISS on it's way by!

[Grace]

Oh boy - that was cool

Watching them land on the moon, again, exactly 40 years later, to the minute. Good job CNN.