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“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

July 7, 2009 |  Tagged , , | Leave a Comment




Next July 20th will be the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
To celebrate that event, Florida Today partnered with Footnote.com to create a web site called Moon Landing Memories where you can browse newly digitized photographs, documents and video from that era.

They also encourage people to add their own photos and thoughts to the Web site, thus sharing our family’s personal memory of this event with the world.

I was seven years old.  I remember that all my family gathered together in front of our black and white TV in the “rose room” as we called our family room. It was very late, at least for me, and I think I fell asleep waiting, until I heard one of my brothers (Matias) jumping and screaming with excitement and repeating Neil Armstrong’s words “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” This was in Santiago, Chile in our home at 4621 Victor Rae street.

Depending on your age, What were you/your parents/your grandparents doing that day?


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