Golly, I get a range of answers when I ask people where they were and what they were doing when man first walked on the moon fifty years ago on 20 July 1969. The most dispiriting answers are “I wasn’t born then!” or “I was just starting school!” which certainly puts me in the more mature group of well over fifties which I guess is where most of my peers lurk too.
I well remember that day. We were in the board room of a company in Sydney of which I was an executive and when we realised that the landing was imminent and was to be on flickering black and white television we dragged all the staff in to watch that momentous occasion. I’ll bet that none of the people there that day have ever forgotten it (despite us having opened the board room bar to toast the Americans’ success).
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” Neil Armstrong said as he stepped off the ladder onto the surface of the moon.
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And what an amazing achievement it was, especially when you consider what was state of the art computer technology back then.
If you really want to know how they did it (coz you’re young!) or want reminding (coz you’re my vintage!) then there’s a podcast from the BBC 13 Minutes to the Moon you must download and listen to. It follows the whole journey from when Kennedy stood before Congress on May 25, 1961, and proposed that the US “should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
And they did! A fantastic achievement.
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