I was 11 and sitting in school in double maths. The headmaster came on the school intercom and said we could all stop lessons and listen to the moon landing. It was a sunny winter's day because I remember looking out of the window trying to imagine that men were up there on the moon. The best maths lesson I ever had!
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Where were you on July 20, 1969?
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Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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Posted 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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Sure was AV!
Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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I must have just turned six but my memory is of my parents waking me and my brother up so that we could watch the pictures on the telly -- I think it must have been a special bulletin. I know Australia's satellite receiver was taking the signal but I don't know if we were getting it delayed from them or what. Usually, what happened with television news in those days, in NZ (few satellites back then), if I've got this right, was that the film footage was flown into NZ, taken off the plane, shown in Auckland then put back on a plane, flown to Wellington, shown, flown to Chch, ditto, and then Dunedin and then put back on the plane and flown out of the country again to somewhere else. Ah, the good old days... Or maybe if it was national-news worthy, it only had to go to Wellington but anyway, it was a kerfuffle....
My brother still has his 'moon globe' -- one of those snow globe-y things, only his is of the men on the moon and the little spacecraft and bits of tinsel drift around when you shake it...
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Jcat, you're right it was delayed. I can remember watching it but can't remember if it was that evening or the next.
Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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