Pope Paul VI sits before a television set in his summer villa and watches the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin's families watched with bated breath at their homes, and the world cheered along with them when the two astronauts landed safely.
As Old Glory hangs over them, thousands of passengers and workers at Kennedy Airport International Arrivals Building stand or sit in awe as they watch on giant TV screen another American flag being raised on the moon. The idea that anything is possible was firmly solidified in the minds of all who were watching. The moment marked a new era of human achievement and inspired countless young people to quite literally reach for the stars.
Some people who were barely 2 or 3 years old at the time of the mission can recall the moment of the moon landing as the first memory of their young lives. Live TV coverage allowed hundreds of millions witnesses to history. They huddled in front of televisions at home and gathered in auditoriums and schoolrooms as the Apollo 11 astronauts ventured onto another world for the first time. Frank Schramm of Montclair, New Jersey, was 12 years old and away at summer camp for four weeks of swimming, hiking and building rockets.
The only problem was that they didn't have a television there. At his suggestion, the camp rented a small inch centimeter TV:.
I staked out my place the whole day. I will never forget that evening of all campers and I sitting in the chair, watching this small black-and-white TV with Neil Armstrong coming out of the lunar module in that very blurry image from the moon.
The room was in total awe, you could hear a pin drop. I will never forget this day! Schramm has been fascinated with the moon landing ever since. He and his family even met Aldrin in when the former astronaut returned to Montclair to celebrate his old school being renamed Buzz Aldrin Middle School. Finally at around am Burke began to hear definite signs that the astronauts were about to open the door and swing the camera out to show Neil Armstrong step on to the Moon.
There was one overriding thought on his mind. However, the image of the Moon surface was at first upside down. And when it did right itself it was dark and grainy. Many of the shots we see today have been digitally enhanced to give us a rather better image than viewers saw in But for one year-old Chris Lee who was sitting with his father his mother and brother had long gone to bed it was a moment he would never forget.
A few years later Lee was studying space engineering at University and is now head of Science Programmes for the UK's Space Agency overseeing Britain's contribution towards a planned lunar space station. However, 50 years on everything has changed, Jackie is now a space artist and makes a living creating scientifically accurate artworks of planets, rockets and of course the Moon.
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