An Audience with Neil Armstrong

[Sundowner]

Neil Armstrong gives a very rare interview in this four part series.

Regards,
Sun

"I thought we had a 90 per cent chance of getting back safely to Earth on that flight but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt".

http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/#episode1

[COndor06]

I was 10 years old when he landed and my dad had converted our garage into a family room where we watched this. We were stationed at McCoy Air Force Base and there were about 20 air crew members in our house all stunned and silent while Neil made his landing. For me, Mr. Armstrong is the bravest man I ever saw. Those were great times. Thanks for posting.

[Shuffler]

<< was also 10

[Hap]

Caught the interview.  Saw the landing from a hospital bed when I was 11.

[Shifty]

I was 10 years old when he landed and my dad had converted our garage into a family room where we watched this. We were stationed at McCoy Air Force Base and there were about 20 air crew members in our house all stunned and silent while Neil made his landing. For me, Mr. Armstrong is the bravest man I ever saw. Those were great times. Thanks for posting.

I was 10 years old as well and remember watching Armstrong stepping off LEM and saying the words One small step for man one giant leap for mankind as if it were yesterday. I wish I sill had all the Apollo 11 memorabilia I collected that summer. 

[cpxxx]

I was nine and stayed up all night to watch it on TV. Finally went to bed with the sun coming up but with the moon still visible. I remember looking at it and thinking 'There are people there right now'. Pity we've never been able to say that since.

[rpm]

Neil Armstrong IS the man. The fact he went into reclusion just magnifies how great he is.
He didn't do it for a payday. He did it for his country.

[rogwar]

I will save that for watching. I was 4 years old and have no memory of the event.

[Rich52]

I remember it like yesterday. It was the only time in my life when I felt like the entire world was united. To bad our kids will never know what it felt like to be an American then.

[ArcticKat]

I was 8 and my mother has a picture of me and my little brother sitting in front of our old black and white tv watching Neil decend the ladder.

[rpm]

I had a "The Eagle has landed" T-shirt that I begged my Mom to buy until she finally gave in. I wore that shirt until the fabric literally disintegrated. I also had the complete Post Cereal Apollo Set. You had to cut it out from the back of the cereal boxes and fold Tab "A" into Slot "B". But when you had all the parts (after 20+ boxes of Post Toasties) you had a complete Saturn V Apollo rocket model. The hard part was the lunar module. It was 2 stages and the legs on the lower stage were very delicate and easy to tear off. So was the higain antennae on the Command Module.

[Shifty]

I had a "The Eagle has landed" T-shirt that I begged my Mom to buy until she finally gave in. I wore that shirt until the fabric literally disintegrated. I also had the complete Post Cereal Apollo Set. You had to cut it out from the back of the cereal boxes and fold Tab "A" into Slot "B". But when you had all the parts (after 20+ boxes of Post Toasties) you had a complete Saturn V Apollo rocket model. The hard part was the lunar module. It was 2 stages and the legs on the lower stage were very delicate and easy to tear off. So was the higain antennae on the Command Module.

I remember those! 

My favorite cereal toy was the USS Enterprise CVN toy that came in Chex cereal. It has two little jets that you shot off the deck at targets you cut off the back of the box.

[Karnak]

I was nine and stayed up all night to watch it on TV. Finally went to bed with the sun coming up but with the moon still visible. I remember looking at it and thinking 'There are people there right now'. Pity we've never been able to say that since.

Not since Dec. of 1972 anyways.

[cpxxx]

Not since Dec. of 1972 anyways.

Indeed, who would have believed back then, that nearly 40 years later. We would say that. My nine year old self would have expected me to have been to the moon by now.

[zack1234]

I own the moon I bought it off a bloke in the pub for £250