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.
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.