I hope everyone is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon today. Being a huge fan of the space program, I am enjoying the day long programming of the History Channel about the Apollo program. Hail Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins and the thousands of people behind the scenes that made this the greatest achievement of mankind!

You'd better believe I'm watching--since Tony has control of the remote!
Susan

The all powerful remote!!

Control has been relinquished. We are now watching Wheel of Fortune. I would go to the moon with Vanna.....if Susan would let me.

"To the Moon Tony, right to the Moon"...said Susan...in her best Jackie Gleason voice.

I once helped make a crown for Neil Armstrong, being a dental technician. He actually lives on Neil Armstrong Way.

Mitchell

We used to play a little roadhouse bar near Neil's hometown, Wapakoneta, OH. Most of the hotels and restaurants there are in the area around the Neil Armstrong space museum, a very cool modern building. One time I had the opportunity to go, and it's really a great little place full of his memorabilia, space hardware, and a lot of information on the history of rocket flight and the space program. Highly recommended if you're passing through. Not only that, but you used to be able to get 'Glorified Rice' at the now-closed Brown Family Restaurant right down the street, although I'd have to say that the Museum was BY FAR the more interesting of the two!

As a kid, I was fascinated by astronauts and space travel. I remember being at my parent's house trying to divide my attention between watching the moon landing on TV and kissing my first real girlfriend- at that point it was awfully hard to say which was the most interesting of THOSE two...

I was 12 at the time, and the biggest hint I had that it was TRULY a big deal was that my parents let me stay up past my bedtime to watch Armstrong set foot on the moon at roughly 11 pm EDT ... which, BTW, is STILL past my bedtime! :-)

My brother read this article on how to take pictures off the tv set, So Mom, Dad, and I had to be to the sides of the old Black and White tv, which by the way we only got channel 5 of Bristol, Tn-Va most days. The pictures came out pretty good. He still has them somewhere. I know the cost of space is high but with such vast areas, can we afford not to explore.

of course, startin' it all off was


Sputnik

In the fall of 1979, Armstrong was working at his farm near Lebanon, Ohio. As he jumped off of the back of his grain truck, his wedding ring caught in the wheel, tearing off the tip of his ring finger. However, he calmly collected the severed digit, packed it in ice, and managed to have it reattached by microsurgeons at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.



When "Saturday Night Live" reported this incident on the Weekend Update segment, they quoted Armstrong as saying,

"That's one small step for man, one giant AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Sputnik was a Rough Rider too!