40th anniversary of moon landing

[NavarreMan 10]

I was in school and they brought a TV in to the classroom so we could watch it live. I can't believe it's been 40 years!

Were you in China at the time?

"At 02:56 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:56pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969, Armstrong began his descent to the Moon's surface."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

I wish my parents had forced to watch the event. I was 4 and have no memory of it. Pretty disappointing to be too young for the landing and dead by the time we land somebody on Mars.

ALC - you need to get your information straight. (go figure )

Your cut-n-paste from wikipedia: "At 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969, Armstrong opened the hatch, and at 02:51 UTC began his descent to the Moon's surface." overlooks the fact that this was Neil's egress from the LM. Remember the famous "One small step for (a) man..."?

The landing was at: "Armstrong took semi-automatic control^[12] and, with Aldrin calling out altitude and velocity data, landed at 20:17 UTC on July 20 with about 25 seconds of fuel left." is indicative of the landing on the moon when it was reported to Houton the "the Eagle has landed". This was nearly 6 1/2 hours before Neil set foot on the moon. 20:17 UTG (GMT in this case) was 4:17PM EST and 1:17PM PST. I was not in school at the time due to summer vacation but that is not to say that some kids were not on a different schedule. I do remember seeing many of the events from Apollo missions on CCTV at school. Oh... I lived in the Seattle area, not in China.

[NavarreMan 10]

I was not quite four, but I do remember seing it.

Currently, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is orbiting the Moon, and has sent back the first photos of the landing sites where the Lunar Module Descent stages of five of the six landings are visible, as well as tracks left by Apollo 14 astronauts walking on the Moon:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...pollosites.html

And yes... if you look reeeeeal hard, you can see their footprints! RIP Effie!