Do you remember when we landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong said that epic line? Were you a swinging hippy or just a twinkle in your parents eyes at the time? Have you only ever heard stories about this golden era of space exploration, music and fashion?
Tell us what your remember or your thoughts in the comments box below.
Once Project Apollo launches 18-19 July you will get chance to add your story to the ‘69 noticeboard in our autehntic ’60s living room! We will take some pictures and post them back up here. What are you waiting for, share your story below!
I share my birthday with the lunar landings (hence my middle name), on the 21st July 2009 i will celebrate my 40th Birthday and hoping to visit your exhibition with my family.
What a great link to Project Apollo. Come and join us on 20 July for the UK anniversary celebrations as our guest (we will sort you out a family pass!) You can then have two birthday celebrations, why should the Queen be the only one to have two!
I was eight years old when the Apollo 11 Moon landing happened.
I can vaguely remember my mum and dad letting me watch Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon, as they knew what a space nut I was (along with millions of other boys), as it was shown at a really hour in the morning.
At school during that time, whenever we had an art lesson, all I would draw or paint were Saturn V rockets and Apollo spacecraft!
I can also remember pestering my mum to buy packets of Kellogs Rice Crispies, as inside each packet were small plastic models of the rockets and spacecraft.
My only other recollection of that year was that of my granny baking a special cake marked out like a football pitch with Subuteo figures on it to celebrate Manchester City winning the F.A. Cup. It was very nice (even though every one else in our family are Manchester United fans!)
If anyone says the moon landings didn’ t happen they are, just, quite simply wrong. and I know they’re wrong.
The landings happened.
It’s quite simple. When I was 15, my dad woke me up to see Buzz and Neil come out of the lander.
On the bbc we saw the landing then I fell asleep and in that time the astronauts decided not to go to sleep and to come out onto the surface of the Moon early.
My dad woke me up, he said “Son, this is important; you have to see it” (only he didn’t speak in semicolons).
And he wouldn’t lie to me, because he was my Dad.
So I know it’s true.
Simple.
I was only 14 months old when the Apollo 11 landing happened. However, it is highly probable that I was sitting in front of the TV when man landed on the Moon, as it was the middle of the day here in Melbourne. I’ve always had a fascination about space, and even recall having a dream about going to the moon when I was 4, so maybe I did subconsciously remember something about the event!
As a kid, the souviner book that was printed by one of the daily papers was a favourite. So much so, that earlier this year, I happened to see a copy at the local flea market, and bought it for memory’s sake.
In the 70s, there was promise of more manned space exploration in science fiction. Sadly, reality hasn’t kept pace, but I do hope I am still alive when someone sets foot on Mars. I will be watching that one live, if I am around.