Star readers share moon landing memories

During the summer of 1969, I was a camp counselor at Camp Whispering Pines, the Girl Scout camp at the end of Organization Ridge in the Santa …

I was 13 years old in July 1969 and fascinated by the space program. I remember staying up late on July 20 and sitting on the couch with my pa…

The summer I was 19 I took my mother to Newport, R.I. to visit her old friend, Jenney, for several days. Her nephew, Neil, was 22, a navy test…

I was seventeen and a food service worker at a local nursing home. I watched the landing on CBS with the old folks thinking that they were ali…

On July 20th 1969- I started my day with the US Air Force Air Commando unit flying a combat mission in South Vietnam. I heard Airman Kronauer …

The boys were in bed; I was sitting on the den floor watching the TV as the lunar module landed on the moon. It was a beautiful clear night in…

During the summer of 1969, I was a member of the cast of Peer Gynt, a production of Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park at the out door Dell…

America’s decision to go the moon caused me to choose science and engineering as a career.

Although I do remember watching the moon landing on TV, what struck me most vividly were the responses around the world to that event. I think…

As part of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, I would like to submit my thoughts and memories of this day. In 1969, I was 12 …

I was 19 years old when i married my husband, Bart, in February, 1968. We flew to Connecticut to begin our life together as he began his aeros…

What I remember about that day was my father’s nervousness. He had worked in white sands on the testing of all things that were to go to the m…

My two girlfriends and I, all age 20, were sharing a sparsely furnished studio apartment in Seattle the summer of 1969. We were excited about …

On that date I was a single mom (age 28) with a seven year old and a four year old, sunning on Utulei Beach in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Seve…

In the Netherlands it was almost 4 a.m. I was sound asleep, as most 8-year-olds must have been at that early hour.

When Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 9:32 a.m., July 16, 1969, it was already 9:32 p.m. of the same day in my little world located…

I started working at Cape Kennedy on the third of June 1966. At that time I was 32 years old. I was employed by IBM and they had the contract …

I was 14 years old in July 1969, living 95 miles from Wapakoneta, Ohio, hometown of Neil Armstrong and my grandfather. My grandfather's siblin…

In the summer of 1969, I was at ROTC summer camp at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, training to be an army officer. We were finally given a weekend…

I was one month shy of my 15th birthday the night Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. My parents woke me during the night …

On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, i recall 50 years ago that week in July 1969. I was 14 yrs old, an Eagle Scout attending the 1969…

Right out of college and as a U.S. Air Force officer on special assignment, my job in the NASA Houston Landing and Recovery Division was to tr…

As a pilot for a major corporation with interests in the space program, I had the privilege of attending several launches at Cape Kennedy incl…

The event gave this 17-year-old maybe my first life lesson. Of course the family was up very early in the morning to watch the event on a grai…

I was 14 years old. My family was driving from our home in Tulsa, Okla., to my grandmother's house in Richmond, Va. We were listening to the c…

In 1969, I was 28 years old and living in Phoenix, AZ. My 77 year old Grandmother, Anastasia Brophy Karie was visiting me. We were intently wa…

I remember reading with much interest all about the upcoming moon landing trip. I was worried about the astronauts, but was so excited that th…

To be fair, I believe that everyone involved in this story did their best, but geeze…

I was the youngest individual to have worked in the Manned Space Program. I was a Mechnical-Technician for Grumman Aircraft at the White Sands…

In 2010, I had the honor and privilege of meeting Buzz Aldrin for a short period of time, when the attached photo was taken. I also have his a…

Very late at night into the early morning hours of July 20, 1969 I watched the moon landing from my apartment in Vienna, Austria. The TV was a…

Jill and I were living in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 20, 1969, "glued" to our tiny television set when Neil Armstrong stepped off the LEM and…

I was working in the NBC News room for reporters Edwin Newman, John Palmer, Lem Tucker, Pauline Frederick, Tim Ryan, Aline Saarinen, and others.

I was ten years old in the summer of 1969. My parents made me and my sisters stay up that night to watch the TV. I don’t remember what time of…

In Paris, after watching the landing on television with the Sahuaro High School students in our summer program in the hotel lobby, I stepped a…

I watched in bed teary eyed as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. I was 31 and this was the culmination of a decade of work as a photojourn…

I clipped newspapers for Theodore H. White (“The Making of the President” books) and maintained his information files. My last stack of newspa…

I spent nearly four years working at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Control Center near Houston. I worked on most of the missions from Gemini 5 th…

In July 1969 I had just turned 19 and landed my dream secretarial job at Owens-Illinois, one of Toledo OH's largest companies. The downtown of…

I was on a day watch with the Naval Security Group Activity in Kamiseya Japan. I was lucky enough to have walked into the office with paperwor…

Fifty years ago, I was a junior high school student who was excited that to watch the US land an astronaut on the moon. My father had been a p…

In the summer of 1969, I was working as the tennis pro at Schloss Fuschl, a five-star resort, once the hunting lodge for the archbishops of Sa…

In July 1969 Jane, my wife, and I were 24 years old. We were US Peace Corps Volunteers teaching in Ipoh, Malaysia, at the newly established Po…

In 1969, I was eight years old and living in San Juan Marcona, Peru (South America) with my parents. My father was a construction manager for …

My memory of the Moon Landing is like everyone else. Watching it on the TV. What I remember about the astronauts was the reception they got in…

Where was I when man first stepped onto the moon? I was 4,000 miles away from Ohio (my birth state) living with a home-stay family in Aranjuez…

At the time of the moon landing, I was a guest of the UA archaeological field school's weekend trip to Canyon de Chelly National Monument, led…

I watched history being made while booking two teenage boys I had arrested into the jail in Boulder City, Nevada. I was a National Park Ranger…

A college freshman home during summer break, I visited my disabled brother at a state institution near Denver, Colorado, on July 20, 1969. Sud…

I was in college studying nursing and working at a nursing home (as they were called way back then). I was taking care of Emma Andrews. She wa…

Watching the TV coverage of the moon landing and later actually seeing Neil Armstrong first step out onto the lunar surface are memories that …

Following a European business trip, I was returning to San Francisco from Copenhagen via Scandinavian Airlines. The Captain told us that we wo…

I watched the Moon landing on color TV in the wilds of the Adirondack mountains with my Grandfather, who was born before human flight, electri…