As one of the older players here, I still vividly remember watching our black and white "portable" (hah! 50+ pound) Magnavox TV during the CBS broadcast of Neil Armstrong and, a bit later, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin taking the first steps on our Moon. The entire US space program had caught my imagination, but this moment was the pinnacle, the crowning achievement.
Twelve men walked on the Moon. We have now lost three of them. (Alan Shepard died in 1998, Charles "Pete" Conrad died in 1999.) Time will eventually catch up to the rest, and I do not expect that I shall live long enough to see another man--or a woman--once again walk on the Moon.
Godspeed, Neil.
Quoted from "Murkalael;566818"
I'm among the elders too. I was born 2 years after Neil set foot on the moon. The very fist TV I recall we had, was a Philco Safari (Brazillian made)
