I was born the night of the Apollo 11 landing.
I was just under 2. I recall watching lunar landings and moon walks - esp one of them when I remember being antsy and asking my mom why we were watching TV. It was “special” to them - seemed perfectly ordinary and boring to me. I wanted to go outside. I don’t think that memory is of Apollo 11 though. I think it was one of the later walks. My sister (one year older) tells me we were at our neighbor’s house watching Apollo 11. If so, I don’t recall that. Her memory is usually fantastic, so if I were a betting person, I’d bet she’s right. Hence I think my memory of us all gathered around our TV was one of the later flights.
My original plan in college and the AF was to head into space science (ground - not astronaut). My major was Physics with a concentration in AstroPhysics… Health issues messed that up (sigh). It was even worse last year when I found out the health issues (Navy diagnosed!) were incorrect and I’d have been fine on Plan A. I still wonder what could have been. It’s a good thing I like my life now or that could have led into a major depression - my mind toyed with depression as it was when I learned the news.
Definitely. One of those I remember where I was and who I was with moments and one of the most thrilling moments in my life. I was floored to grasp that a human was walking on another heavenly body.
D, 21, has absolutely ZERO interest in watching any of the specials about the moon landing. 
I was 5 and seated on the floor in front of our console TV set. I believe the Apollo missions helped me develop a childhood love and fascination for astronomy.
Later that day I remember seeing Nixon on TV and asking my dad, “Who is that scary man?”
I don’t remember it but DH does (we were both 5-6 years old that summer). His parents also bought a color TV for it @CountingDown !
We lived in a Long Island suburb of NYC and I still have my father’s copy of the Newsday about the landing.
@MaineLonghorn, my daughter has absolutely no interest in the specials as well. Sigh.
Had to read that line twice!! LOL!
@WorkingMama, I was born the day before! Youtube has a “live” stream which started today with the launch. I’ll need to go check the time I was born and be sure to be watching then 
My dad always talked about watching the coverage of it in the hosptial.
My Dad was an aerospace engineer and he watched every minute of every space launch. But, for some reason I cannot remember anything specific about where I watched it. I know I was in early high school. But I do remember my Mom and Dad crying and I think I was ‘too cool for school’
I remember the first orbit around the moon much better than the moon walk. I thought that was astounding. I remember where I was and who I was with for that first flight around the dark side of the moon. When the Eagle landed I was 18. A couple of weeks later I went to Woodstock. It was an eventful summer. Both my son and daughter are interested in documentaries about the Apollo program, and the space program in general.
I was eight, I remember it was a really big deal for my father. He caught a good photo from the TV and I hope to find the old slide this summer. My husband is a space buff, particularly the Apollo program. My daughter and her boyfriend are planning to visit the Air and Space Museum in DC on Saturday for the anniversary.
I was 14. I vividly remember watching with my father on the small b&w tv in their bedroom. It was incredible. I kept multiple newspaper articles about the mission, the parade, etc. I kinda wish I still had them.
We had just moved to a new town. I was with my parents, brother and new baby brother. I was fascinated by space. The landing seemed surreal. I was 10 and my favorite toy at the time was my Major Matt Mason action figure. I’ve made plans for the next two weekends but wish I hadn’t. I live in the Dayton OH area and both the National Museum of the USAF (free if you are in the area) and the Armstrong Air and Space Museum are holding events the next two weekends. One of the things that I have recently learned is that the average age of the engineers who worked on the Apollo mission was 28. A lot of dedicate young people were instrumental in getting us to the moon and back.
Good indicator, I am ancient. Slide rules were used when I started college. I remember getting a job at the college bookstore to be able to save up for the HP 45 calculator for Trig classes as it was $325.
What is the best moon-landing documentary available?
I’ve heard good things about the CNN one. Have not viewed yet.
A friend told me about the podcast, “13 minutes to the moon” a BBC broadcast about the 13 minutes leading to the landing.
I was 12 years old and at Girl Scout camp. The entire camp was gathered in the dining hall to watch on television. I remember it being a Sunday night, so I guess we must have just arrived that day (one week camp ran from Sun. - Fri.).
I also remember pretty well for my age when John Glenn orbited the Earth. I usually watched Captain Kangaroo at that time of the morning while my mother cleaned up from breakfast. I was not happy at that interruption.
I’ve been thinking back to things that became our important touchstones from the '60s and how it was largely due to television. I remember getting televisions in every classroom at my elementary school around 3rd or 4th grade. The justification was so we could watch educational television, but the state public television network was in its infancy and didn’t have much for us. We really watched educational content via films and filmstrips in the library. Our television watching in those days was largely devoted to space launches and baseball games in the fall. We could have quiet reading time with the ballgames on if we had been good. Not much reading done!
I was just telling my kids last night I remember certain things Mets winning the World Series, 70s Watergate, Patty Hearst and waiting in line for gas 
(alternate days right?). Surprised I don’t remember Moon landing!
@lvvcsf I lived in Dayton (Kettering) during the moon landing! I loved the Air and Space Museum there! You would thing I would be going to all the events since I’m here at NASA but I’m going out of town this weekend too!
I was at summer camp so no tv or radio’s. The camp owner’s had video 8 of their black and white tv, and showed part of the moon walk coverage at the end of camp in August.
My dad worked in the aerospace industry for his entire career (he was aways traveling to Canaveral or Vandenburg to participate in launches ) and he personally knew a lot of the NASA engineers working on Apollo. I remember sitting with him in our kitchen, watching the moon landing on a small portable B&W TV. I remember him telling me I was watching history happen.