48 years ago today.
How many watched those grainy TV pictures in real time?
This was scheduled to happen on my birthday but actually happened ahead of schedule to my great disappointment at the time. Not many government projects run ahead of schedule.

I remember watching it. Still have copies of the local newspaper showing the event.

I remember watching it with my grandfather. I thought it was so cool that he was alive when the Wright brothers flew and when man first walked on the moon.

I went over to my parents house to watch it. Memorable to say the least. I watched every step of the space program from the Redstone launch on. A very amazing feat in our countries history.

Jim

I remember watching it with my Dad. Good times that are lacking today.

We watched it all night, my dad made sure of that.

He actually sat us kids down around the coffee table to draw what we saw. It would be cool to have those drawings.

I hope I never forget.
It was the last truly awesome TV broadcast made.

I didn't have a TV (still don't), so watched it in a seedy bar. The camera showed the lander, with NOTHING happening for the longest time. I had a helluva time persuading the other bar patrons to stick with that channel.

Thanks for the reminder of that epic event.

The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts still are my heroes. What an American accomplishment the space program was.

I did.

Yup... remember it well.

I watched it in Tehran, Iran. The Shah had just caused the installation of a big satellite station in the country and our American TV station carried the Lunar Landing coverage in real time. I think the other local (Farsi) stations were carrying it, also.

flashguy

My aunt worked in the place that made the mission patches, and somewhere at my folk's house I have an Apollo 11 patch framed.

remember it like it was yesteday

My wife, our oldest son (15 months old then) and I watched it live. I was in the Air Force. Four months later I was in Vietnam.

I was in my grandmother's living room with mother an uncle watching it live.

May 25, 1961, Kennedy made his Man on the Moon Speech.
Just over eight years later it happened but there were a tremendous number of technical developments to make that happen.
The hardware we are all reading this on is largely a result of that research and development.

I remember watching and growing up in the space age it was always of interest to me. I even had an Apollo rocket.

Yes sir, remember it well!

I was installing a computer at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston when the launchpad fire took the lives of three Apollo astronauts. The sadness and distress of that day tempered the joy of the first lunar landing.

The staff was developing a FORTRAN program named MOONSHOT. When I first saw the name I took it to be MOON'S HOT before realizing it was MOON SHOT.