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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I loved The Dish. The scenes of the various peoples of the world listening to the news, and the group--Aborigines or African tribefolk--chanting during the blackout, I believe. The dead-reckoning locating of the capsule. Very cool movie.

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

I truly love this movie Kathy, and shall watch it in honor of the day.

I love the Dish as well. I could only describe it as delightful.

The moon landing happened late at night/early morning, as I recall of my 9 year old self. My father woke me for it and I could not, for the life of me, figure out why. 'History' had never been of interest to him before. And, even though I liked science as a kid (still do!), the space program never captured my attention. Until, I supppose, I watched From the Earth to the Moon which taught me the things about the program that interest me.

I'll never forget David Andrews playing Frank Borman's testimony before Congress about the Apollo 1 fire. Just awesome.

I just figured out while I don't remember watching the coverage of the Apollo 11 launch. I remember the event well enough because I was 15.

I was at Georgia's summer honors program for high school students at Wesleyan College in Macon, where we had neither air conditioning nor televisions. They did bring a television into the dorm lobby for the moon landing, and another girl and I stayed up all night watching. Staying up all night was how I got to see my favorite exchange of the moon landing:

Buzz Aldrin: "Hey, Neil, didn't I say we might see some purple rocks?"

Neil Armstrong: "Find a purple rock?"

I was only three for the Apollo 11 landing, so I don't remember it. However, I do remember a few years later going with my mom to a neighbor's house in the middle of the afternoon for something, and they happened to have footage from one of the later landings on the tv while we were talking with the neighbor. I recall the rover on the tv screen, so it was anywhere from Apollo 15-17.

In school, we had to learn the prominent American astronaut names and achievements (Shepherd, first American in space, Glenn, first one to orbit the Earth, Armstrong and Aldrin, first ones on the moon), but I didn't get into the space program as a whole until I saw The Right Stuff in the theaters when I was in high school. I geeked out when I met Al Bean at BookExpo about ten years ago, but not nearly as much as I would have if I had seen From the Earth to the Moon first (his episode is my favorite in the miniseries).

I'll never forget David Andrews playing Frank Borman's testimony before Congress about the Apollo 1 fire. Just awesome.

That was terrific. "Now, let's stop this witch hunt, so we can go to the moon."

I really enjoyed The Dish.

I was spending that summer studying in France. (why our parents let all of us Middle Schoolers go to France for 8 weeks kinda blows my mind now). We all got up to watch it on a tiny TV in the main lounge of the dorms we were staying in in Strasbourg. I remember more the feeling of all of us packed into the room all quietly intent on one small black and white screen than I do the actual images of the landing.