El Siglo 21 es Hoy

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "That evening was magical." Bill from Hagerstown, Maryland struggled to get good television reception, but the night was still magical.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "The experience was so incredible." Marla from Dallas, Texas was a camp counselor during the summer of 1969, and everyone at camp watched together.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I was way too excited to go to bed." At age 7 in 1969, Lauren from Crofton, Maryland visited her grandparents in Florida. She got to see the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket launch, and they woke her up to see the Moon landing a few days later.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "The Moon landing nearly wrecked our family vacation." Russ from Long Beach, California was going on a family vacation to Florida that summer, but they were going to be on the road during the landing-- he threw a fit until his parents conceded.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "They're gonna break it!" Talitha from Lorton, Virginia has a funny first memory. Her younger brother had some choice words for the Apollo 11 astronauts.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "We wanted to look at these first steps." Rolf from Germany watched every moment of the first steps on the Moon with his father in the early hours of the morning.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I remember how excited we were." Tom from Springfield, Missouri was at a Boy Scout camp during the landing, but thankfully the counselors brought in a television to the mess hall.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Listening to his words was monumentally emotional." Deirdre from Ireland got to stay up extra late to watch the Moon landing.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Everybody at the press site could see a shockwave." Parks from Miami, Florida was on the press site during the launch.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "It was really like science fiction come true." Steve from Bethpage, New York grew up with posters of rockets and planes hanging all over his room. His dad also worked on the lunar module, so the Apollo 11 mission meant a lot to him and his family.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I stayed up all night to wait for that moment." Peter from West Sussex, England took photos of the Moon walk from his television screen.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "Me, my mom, and my dad just sat transfixed." Allen from Springfield, Illinois made sure to capture the big moment as he watched transfixed with his family.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "The whole world stopped." Rob from Fresno, California remembers his mom purchasing a huge color TV two days before the Moon landing. The whole neighborhood came over to watch.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I saw it firsthand on the monitors." Retha from Upper Marlboro, Maryland graduated high school in 1969, and was a summer intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center!

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I feel honored and blessed to have been alive during that time." Brand from Los Gatos, California made sure to record the Moon landing.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I felt like I was there myself." Linda from California made sure to teach her students about space exploration history.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "I'm a space geek, and proud of it." Ana Maria from Largo, Florida remembers watching the historic Moon landing. A lifelong love for space followed.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "To this day, I remember my excitement." Dave from South Glen Falls, New York was camp counseling at a Boy Scouts summer camp, but he arranged to be home the day of the landing.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "He scared the heck out of us." On the day of the Moon landing, Randy from Bellevue, Washington had an interesting drive home from work.

Por NASA Podcast #Recomendado Tweet "We toasted the crew with rounds of champagne." Sy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin was in Germany during the landing.