Moon Landing

Forty years ago I was sitting in front of a little black and white TV set in North Dakota watching the impossible happen. Of course I had my camera and these are the pictures I got. Pictures are grainy? Well, my camera was a lot better than our TV was then. We could only pick up two TV stations, fortunately we could see the moon landing.

It is all different now. Back then - on July 20, 1969 - NOBODY knew what was going to happen in the next five minutes. All the way there, everybody knew that it might end up with them making a low pass at the moon and coming back home. The were going to TRY to land, but they didn’t know what was going to happen. NObody knew. During the descent of the Lunar Module to the Moon’s surface, we all knew the astronauts might have to abort and return.


Now at 1,000 feet above the surface of the moon and about a minute of descent fuel remaining we know we are committed. We're obviously going down. Will we land or crash? At this point nobody knows. . . stay tuned.



The module has landed. For a long time it seems quiet. Nobody in the entire world is breathing



It worked! The module actually did land on the moon! And they are alive! And talking! Wow. What had seemed virtually impossible now quickly becomes more normal.


We can hear the communications between crew and ground control, and we are updated with overlays. Man has now been on the moon for 9 minutes and 9 seconds.






Later Buzz Aldrin comes on to the moon surface.









Planting the Flag.