Er, no. Nothing like it. Grabbed from your bed in the middle of the night, bundled downstairs to watch (grainy) and hear (crackly) weird things on a black-and-white TV, while adults, including strangers, whooped and shouted drunkenly. I understood the Apollo 11 thing only in the days after, through news reports. The live event was as impenetrable to me as a dream. Then again, I was half-asleep and five years old.
I was seven, and I happen to have had a profoundly different experience than you. There was a massive rocket mania and all the kids I knew wanted to see the landing.
Russ Olsen does a great keynote about the life-changing experience for those of us so affected. I happened to be in the audience for this edition and it was something special to be old enough to remember it much as he remembered it.
That's a super cool recount. I did know that it was at night US time (which obviously is different from what happened today) but I didn't know a lot more than that.
What I meant in my first comment was just the absolute amazement of how far technology has gotten, to the point where this thing is just hurtling towards the ground and then suddenly just floats onto a tower. That gave me chills to watch.
My grandma was one of the only person with a TV where she lived, half of the town was in her living room, nothing comparable. I bet most people watched this on their toilet seat before scrolling to the next cool thing as if it was nothing
> I bet most people watched this on their toilet seat before scrolling to the next cool thing as if it was nothing
I think GP tries to compare _their_ experience (not the experience of "most people") with what people felt 55 years ago.
idk about them, but I watched it in a live stream starting about an hour early, because I wanted to see the reentry (that plasma is something special) and I didn't want to miss things. Still I don't think it is the same. Not after Falcon 9 landings, double Falcon 9 boosters landings and catching of the Starship first stage. I expected it to be caught today. Got some doubts after the booster missed the tower, but still pretty sure that 2nd stage would make it.
I was nine. I remember our black and white TV, the crackling from the picture tube's high voltage wiring adding a tang of ozone. We stayed up late that night.
[−]HarHarVeryFunny · 2026-11-15 Sun 01:38 UTC ·
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Yeah - I was 8, and remember the whole family glued to our 20" B/W TV watching the moon landing. Remember the poor quality of the video/audio ("one small step for man") from the moon - hopefully will be 4K next time!
[−]ExoticPearTree · 2026-11-15 Sun 03:44 UTC ·
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8K or 16K from Mars. This is what I am hoping for.
Russ Olsen does a great keynote about the life-changing experience for those of us so affected. I happened to be in the audience for this edition and it was something special to be old enough to remember it much as he remembered it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMZBA7KHnHQ
What I meant in my first comment was just the absolute amazement of how far technology has gotten, to the point where this thing is just hurtling towards the ground and then suddenly just floats onto a tower. That gave me chills to watch.
I think GP tries to compare _their_ experience (not the experience of "most people") with what people felt 55 years ago.
idk about them, but I watched it in a live stream starting about an hour early, because I wanted to see the reentry (that plasma is something special) and I didn't want to miss things. Still I don't think it is the same. Not after Falcon 9 landings, double Falcon 9 boosters landings and catching of the Starship first stage. I expected it to be caught today. Got some doubts after the booster missed the tower, but still pretty sure that 2nd stage would make it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw