I remember watching at school, maybe grade 3? I definitely remember asking myself,
“I wonder how they will get back”?
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Yes…in a hotel on the Isle of Wight.
Your family was on holiday?
“Do you remember watching the moon landing in1969” is the heading.
I have to be honest here and say I didn’t see it take off 
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I saw it all, I was working in the PO Tower in London at the time all the broadcasts went through there.
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Yes…
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I certainly do remember it Bretrick. Also the build up to the launch and the landing, it was really quite exciting and captured the public’s imagination. Watching TV was more of a collective experience in those days, no YouTube 
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Just assumed it was the latest episode of the Thunderbirds!
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I was more about this
Bugger The Mysterons!
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Yes, I was watching it on our black/white telly in the middle of the night . The image quality was awful.
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yes same
I watched all of them
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I took it all with a pinch of salt.
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Watched it in Rumbelows workshop (Rumbelows was a chain of domestic appliances rental/sales/repair shops in the UK - TVs etc).
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That takes me back…gawd bless the tv repair man!
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I was 19 at the time and had interests in other areas…Beer, women and fast cars…
So I don’t remember watching the moon landing at all.
It’s funny that you should post that topic now Bretrick…The other night I was watching an old re-run of ‘Heartbeat’ (a popular programme on TV in the seventies and eighties that was supposed to depict the sixties) )and it was the one where they were all gathered around a TV watching the moon landings in the local pub. I nearly started the topic myself because I realised that I couldn’t remember watching it. Watching it on ‘Heartbeat’ I was thinking what a circus it was, and I often wonder if it really happened. It’s academic really because I guess we will never know for sure, but I know most people do believe it and some have even visited the space centre and seen stuff for themselves…Me included…But I still think it could have been an incredible elaborate hoax. Wasn’t technology brilliant in 1969 when Mr President sat in his oval office and spoke to Neil Armstrong on his telephone 250,000 miles away, when I sometimes have trouble getting through to the doctors surgery…When ‘War of the Worlds’ was first transmitted as a radio programme, hundreds of people rang in and believed that we were in fact being invaded by the Martians, it was so realistic at the time… 
‘Quatermass’ was another one where fiction seeped over into realism and convinced many people it was actually happening.
The film and media industries have come a long way since then and whereas in those old days it would just affect a few people huddled around the radio or TV, but now almost everyone is connected to the internet and we have 24 hour rolling news and documentaries aimed at convincing folk to believe anything they want you to believe such is the power of the media. We are all hooked up and there is no escape…
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It’s funny because the other day, during a conversation, I don’t remember what we were talking about, but I happened to ask my parents if they’d seen the moon landing and they said they didn’t remember. I don’t remember for sure, I was only two. 
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If it was a hoax Foxy then it must have been incredibly elaborate. What of the subsequent Apollo missions, hoaxes too?
Nope I don’t buy it, consider the ill fated Apollo 13 mission.
You’re only just old enough to be on the forum Rose…
Young and beautiful Aye?
I was running marathons at your age…
Well, half marathons anyway…
