My dad got us kids up special to watch the landing because it was late at night.

I was four during Apollo 11, so I don't remember any of it. I remember Apollo 17 (the last Apollo mission to land on the moon).

I really wanted to be an astronaut back then.

Laura, watch the movie A Walk on the Moon. It's all about what happens to a working-class New York family that summer of 1969, mostly set in a Catskills summer camp where the family stays and the husband joins them on the weekends, when he can get away from his tv repair job (everyone's getting their sets fixed so they can watch the moon landing).

It's a great film, with Liev Schrieber and Diane Lane as the parents, Anna Paquin as their daughter, Tovah Feldshuh is Liev's mom, and Viggo Mortensen is the traveling salesman who seduces Diane while hubby's at work.

And why on earth in July?!

I think this is the planning meeting for the upcoming year which is only a bit over a month away. It is also sort of the changing of the guard from last year's board to this year's. The time is more weird. I'm sure that some of the board members are SAHMs, but surely not all of them. The last two years I've been the only male board member, I expect that will continue.

The actual landing was July 20th, 1969.

I remember watching this, even though I was 15 months old. (This partially explains the Tolkien madness: my memory for certain kinds of information is extremely good. I remember learning to *walk*...but I can't remember birthdays. Or whether or not I've met someone before, sometimes.)

Yep: sitting on the floor of my parents' house in front of the HUGE console TV with all the colored knobs on the front (to control HUE and BRIGHTNESS and such). My mom says I was fussy because everyone was so enthralled they forgot to check the baby's (my) diaper for a while. I just vividly recall the images of a man in a white suit walking around on the grey dusty surface.

And I also wanted (want!) to be an astronaut.

Kathy, that sounds like a movie that will be very familiar to me. Will find it.

I was 13 and remember it well. We kids all slept in the dining room in the summer, because it was the only room besides my parents bedroom that had an air conditioner.

We were all science geeks or science-adjacent in my case, so it was a big deal to the whole family.

We were on vacation during the moon mission. We watched the launch in my maternal Grandmother's house in Tacoma, Washington. I remember her ironing and watching. For the landing, we were on the road, and my oldest sister talked my very frugal father into getting a motel room so we could watch.

I was 8 years old.

My phone started going off at 7am this morning. Sandip's mother wouldn't stop calling, so I turned off my phone and went back to bed. On my way to work, I texted that she had the wrong phone number and please stop calling, but I suspect that Sandip's mother won't believe me and will write back accusing me of trying to "ignore mommy."

shrift, I am happy to call her as your assistant/representative/agent/lawyer - your choice. She'll stop.