[Leica] Moon landing - where were you?

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I was in college at that time. We were still in the clutches of full fledged Fabian Socialist hell in those days in India, so there was no TV service at all in the country (which made a pan India entrance, gingerly, though only in urban areas in 1982, for the Asian Games). I remember hearing it on radio, followed by the photographs in LIFE magazine which followed soon after. 

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 23-Jul-2019, at 07:24, Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> In July 1969, I was working at a summer camp in rural Massachusetts.  The night of July 20, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, we counselors were invited up to the camp director's house to watch the moon walk. The adults were all out for the night, so we had a critical mass of unsupervised 15-22 year-olds. With predicable results.  Many of the assembled used the opportunity to tell raunchy jokes, smoke cigarettes, and if they had a willing partner, make out (*). I remember being irritated that it was hard to understand what the astronauts were saying. I was absolutely enthralled by the moon landing, space-nerd that I was (and still am).
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> At one point, I remember wondering if we could ever look at the moon the same way again.  Would the sight of the moon still be romantic, now that people had walked on it?   Walking back to my cabin later, I got my answer.  The full moon was just as romantic as ever, maybe more so. And I so wished that I had a girlfriend to make out with under it.   :-)  That would have to wait a couple of years.
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> --Peter
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> (*) For people for whom English is not your first language, "making out" is mid-century slang for hugging, kissing, petting, etc., as long as the "etc." didn't go beyond a certain point.
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