Where were you when Apollo 11 launched 45 years ago? What are your memories of it?

Not sure about the launch, as it was 11 and there were others before.

But when The Eagle landed it was a pivotal moment in my life, at the time.

I was 14 years old and already a dedicated science fiction junkie.

That July (if I have the month right) my family was moving from Seattle to Los Angeles and we stopped at my grandmother's house in Portland and got to watch live moon landing on color TV (film was B&W) and I was SO THRILLED that we had finally done it.

At that time I didn;t give a crap about beating them pesky rooskies, what I cared about was it was our first step toward going to the stars. Unfortunately that's not going to happen. We can''t afford it. Today's trivia question: How much would it cost to build NCC1701 today? Something over $1 Trillion each. And we don;t even have a warp drive yet so it would be pointless.

I was SO! counting on our space program but it has been abandoned and this has been one of the major disappointments of my life.

I have heard since that the original films were lost but them maybe found and this is unfathomable, how such priceless film could have been misfiled or may have been accidentally shipped to

Argentina or whatever happened and hopefully they are safe somewhere.

EDIT: Mt Wilson has been obsolete for quite some time due to light pollution from cities.

Last time I was at the Griffith Park observatory it was scheduled to be shut down for years, remodeled and have an underground parking lot under the front lawn. Since I no longer live in the Police State of California I don't expect to see the results, but hope it turns out well and they maintain as much of its original character as possible.

I was at Hyderabad & took up a job just then .

I used to follow this on newspapers; the reporting was scanty. I was frustrated. The coverage here was minimal though it was headlines; less than what I needed. TV just came then & no coverage. After a few months when I landed in USA I was suffuced with so much of all the information that was there. I even went Cape Kennedy (Canaveral). Already LM was on display. Even I got an album of all the Earth shots from Moon. I cherished (probably someone has pinched it form the coffee table, it is not there - but much better pics are there online).

The one comment of Neil Armstrong was what impressed me. When he was congratulated profusely, he replied saying that he did nothing & it is the NASA engineers & the team that looked after him well and whose achievement it was. He did what he was told to do & all the equipment, systems, instruments were there for his work. Anyone could 've been in his place if trained, but every member of the team was irreplaceable.

I was a 14 year old on his way to Boy Scout camp, and on my way to six months of hospitalization not much longer after that. I remember our driver pulling to the side of the highway, to just listen to the radio broadcast without distraction.

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I used to tape record some of the Gemini and Apollo launches, and grew up with the belief that it was, pretty routine, just something that we, did as a matter of course. It wasn't until I grew older that I came to realize just how remarkable those times were. I never had the slightest doubt that we would succeed, nor did I doubt that we'd surely have a lunar colony by now. That turned out to be a bit harder than colonizing the American West with Conestoga wagons, though.

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I was roughly -11 years old... I have no memories from that far back.

I was a little kid then. I had such high hopes about going to the Moon. But when I saw live video with the flag waving on the Moon, I knew it was a hoax,

I was at your moms house skid don't talk that sht on yahoo answers, btw I know some stuff about you that would have you cowarding, thank photonX & Your self l0l.

I wouldn't be born for another 29 years. but you don't know how much i would give to actually see it in person now the only way i can see it is youtube.

I went back in time and stopped the moon from exploding because the astronauts landed too hard on it.