{"id":1236,"date":"2009-07-20T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T05:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2009-07-20T00:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T05:05:29","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-the-first-man-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"40th Anniversary of the First Man on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Apollo11_Insignia.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"198\" height=\"200\"  \/>Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong became the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/apollo11_40th.html\" target=\"_blank\">first man to step foot on the moon<\/a>, or indeed on any astronomical body outside the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I remember precisely where I was at that time.\u00a0 I was at my fiance&#8217;s home, watching TV with her and her family.\u00a0 They had a black and white TV and OK reception &#8211; but it was good enough to see everything I wanted to see.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been made lately about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/hd\/apollo11.html\" target=\"_blank\">restored footage<\/a> of the moon landing &#8211; but none of that matters to me (though the responsible party, or perhaps I should say irresponsible party at NASA that allowed the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/22\/20090716\/tsc-uk-nasa-tapes-sb-a337f0f.html\" target=\"_blank\">original tapes to disappear<\/a> deserves to have his\/her name(s) listed on the all-time Wall of Shame).\u00a0 I saw it happen when it happened and the magic of the moment has never left me. Near-senior citizen status does have its compensations, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing that this happened 40 years ago.\u00a0 And no one else has done it, only the United States through its NASA arm.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon, or indeed on any astronomical body outside the earth. I remember precisely where I was at that time.\u00a0 I was at my fiance&#8217;s home, watching TV with her and her family.\u00a0 They had a black and white TV and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}