El Siglo 21 es Hoy

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It made a real impression on me." Henry from Falmouth, Maine, remembers the one time his summer camp allowed a television on the premises.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "You need to remember this moment." Wanda from Maryville, Tennessee remembers her mother's infatuation with the Apollo 11 mission and the impact it left on her. Now, her daughter works for NASA.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It's exciting to think about revisiting the Moon." Nancy Abell, recently retired associate director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, reflects on Apollo 11 and what's yet to come in lunar exploration.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I ended up working at NASA." Christyl Johnson works as the Deputy Director for Research and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, but initially she wanted to be an astronaut.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Who can forget seeing that first step?" Sue from Cincinatti, Ohio, met her husband for the first time during the moonwalk and remembers wishing he would stop talking during the broadcast.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "She told me it was really important to watch it and to pay attention." Sima from Rockville, Maryland, was six years old when her mother sat her down in front of the television and told her to pay close attention so that she could tell others what it was like to see humans walk on the Moon.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I felt homesick." Phillip of Savannah, Texas, was traveling in the mountains of Ecuador and was sad to miss out on a shared family experience. But he later became friends with an Apollo astronaut who made him feel connected to the Moon landings.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It was just me and the TV." Mike from Greenville, North Carolina, was born two days after NASA was founded and grew up loving space. He had to take the TV and watch the landing outside because his mom was vacuuming.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It was a truly wondrous experience." Michael from Lubbock, Texas, was traveling in Europe with a group of other high school-aged students in 1969. On the day of the Moon landing, he was in a hotel in London, huddled around a television among his fellow travelers.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It was just the most exciting thing that ever happened." Michael, from New York, New York, was at summer camp during the Moon landing. Thankfully, it was visiting weekend, so he got to share the experience with his parents.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "The celebration went on for a very long time." Lisa from Ambler, Pennsylvania, was in Italy with her family in July 1969. Only one house in her father's hometown had a TV, and they had to walk 45 minutes to get to it.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "We were so proud." Judith from Boynton Beach, Florida, was in Rome on vacation at the time of the Moon landing, so she and her friends watched with a crowd in front of a television store.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Four-year-old me wasn't really that impressed." Doug from Phoenix, Arizona, remembers standing in a crowd watching the TVs in the window. His father was awestruck, but four-year-old Doug wasn't really that impressed.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Watch! This is history." David from Austin, Texas, was on a mountain vacation with his family during the landing. They rented a motel room just so they could watch it on television.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I was so mesmerized." Dave from Chesapeake, Virginia, remembers that when it snowed the following winter after Apollo 11, he imagined he was exploring the Moon.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I was at my Eagle Scout awards ceremony." Craig from Eloy, Arizona, was at his Eagle Scouts awards ceremony, which ended right on time for him to catch the famous words "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has Landed," over the radio.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Young and stupid." As a teacher, Craig from Vallejo, California, encourages his students to stay "young and stupid", because he believes these were the qualities NASA employees had that let them dream of going to the Moon and succeed.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It was our first linked event." Christopher from Boston, Massachusetts, stayed with his grandparents in England that summer; his grandmother woke him up and took him outside in the middle of the night to look at the Moon. Meanwhile, his future wife was listening on a radio in New Mexico.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I was celebrating my 16th birthday." Calvin from Houston, Texas, had a slumber party for his 16th birthday on the night that of the Moon landing.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It's a fond memory of a very trying time." Bruce from Lincoln, Illinois, was in the hospital during the week of the Moon landing, but his nurses turned the TV on so he could watch from bed.