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Jul. 20th, 2019 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI did not sit up to watch the moon landing when it happened. I could have; I think that another member of the flat share did. Nor did durham_rambler. We probably had ro work the morning after, he at his real job and I at my summer-before-university holiday job.
It's not that we weren't interested in space travel. I'm old enough to remember how excited I was when my father told me about the sputnik; and Yuri Gagarin's flight not so long after. But what I remember of the moon landing is feeling overloaded by the advance publicity, as if nothing could live up to that amount of fuss. Which is ridiculous, of course: a man walking on the moon, how could you overstate the importance of that?
I've thought about this from time to time in the interim, and felt I'd got it wrong. And yet here I am at my desk, listening to the distant sounds of the Brass Festival, happy fordurham_rambler to watch the anniversary showing of the 'live' coverage, not at all tempted to join him.
Nonetheless, I raise a glass to the man in the moon (he drinks claret, you know):
ETA: UK television coverage was intensive.
durham_rambler. We probably had ro work the morning after, he at his real job and I at my summer-before-university holiday job.It's not that we weren't interested in space travel. I'm old enough to remember how excited I was when my father told me about the sputnik; and Yuri Gagarin's flight not so long after. But what I remember of the moon landing is feeling overloaded by the advance publicity, as if nothing could live up to that amount of fuss. Which is ridiculous, of course: a man walking on the moon, how could you overstate the importance of that?
I've thought about this from time to time in the interim, and felt I'd got it wrong. And yet here I am at my desk, listening to the distant sounds of the Brass Festival, happy for
durham_rambler to watch the anniversary showing of the 'live' coverage, not at all tempted to join him.Nonetheless, I raise a glass to the man in the moon (he drinks claret, you know):
ETA: UK television coverage was intensive.
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Date: 2019-07-20 08:30 pm (UTC)Pyewackett bring back good memories!
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Date: 2019-07-21 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-21 09:53 am (UTC)This track was on one of my party-mix tapes - I don't know where I got it from, but it's good stuff!
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Date: 2019-07-21 09:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-22 02:17 pm (UTC)I was also in the summer before university, working at my home town newspaper. I was sent out to conduct man-on-the-street interviews (they were called that in 1969). I was dismayed to hear "I don't care" reactions--and worse, the conspiracy theory that still hangs on, folks saying "It was all a fake, you know. Filmed in Hollywood."
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Date: 2019-07-22 06:59 pm (UTC)Shocking how early the 'all a fake' story was around: though I suppose we could take it as a warped tribute to how extraordinary, how literally unbelieveable, an achievement it was.