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.

You should mess with her, Shrift.

Holy crap - Flight of the Conchords got nominated for an Emmy, and so did Jemaine: [link]

There's a really wonderful Australian film called The Dish about the engineers at the dish telescope that was responsible for relaying the moon pictures, with Sam Neill. It has one of the best props in movie history, i.e. the actual dish, to film at. And yes, those are sheep around it....

Don't these men look like The Gentlemen from Buffy?

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