One Small Step for a Man

Kris Hocker on 4 Jul 2018

Here’s an almost Wordless Wednesday post in honor of the moon landing which happened 49 years ago this month.

1969 Astronauts on the Moon

Photo of the televised 21 Jun 1969 moon walk by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (photo by my dad)

In July 1969, I was still a baby, so I don’t remember this at all. At the time, my family was living at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. We got to see the launch of the Apollo 11 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center and watched the landing on television. My father took this picture from that broadcast.

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2 Replies to “One Small Step for a Man”

  1. Patty Ryker 4 Jul 2018 at 2:23 pm

    I am a bit older than you, our second son was just a few months old at the time, as well. What an amazing event this was. We would go outside at night to see if we could see anything. It is amazing what we thought we saw, (giggle) but we were fully charged with excitement and even a tear or two of this happening. Thank you for the reminder, this had been put back in the archives of our minds and not recalled until your post. Thanks again. Your Dad was a smart man, we never thought to take a photo of the TV screen.

    1. Kris Hocker 7 Jul 2018 at 7:29 am

      Thank you for sharing your memories of the event, Patty. It was an amazing achievement for our country.

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