Apollo 11 – The Movie

I just went to see this new movie gathered from old and newly discovered footage.

Apollo 11 Movie Trailer

As a complete space nut and someone who remembers watching it live as a nine year old boy I thought I’d make a comment.

43 Years since I was Awe Struck with Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

It’s a memory that never fades.

I was only a kid in 1969, 43 years ago when I sat in front of our shiny, piano finished 3 in 1 National stereogram to watch the first landing on the moon with Neil Armstrong, Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin and Michael Collins. I didn’t have to go to school that day and why would I with such an event in the happening.

I was transfixed for the half-dozen hours it took for Neil and Buzz to walk on the moon and return. What a day! One that is still my most important memory of my childhood.

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