Today is the 4oth Anniversary of the famed first walk on the moon. That involved Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

I thought it would be fitting to share a story.

While I was in High School I had a girl friend whom I had been going out with for about a year. One evening I went to pick her up to go out for a dance. She answered the door and asked me in and said the family was on the phone with Uncle Buzz. I didn't think much of it. Then I was asked if I wanted to speak to him too. I was quite shocked when the man on the other end of the phone introduced himself as Buzz Aldrin!!!!!

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

I saw the footage countless times and although the russians got a man in space, we were the first to land on the moon.

I am shocked that nasa lost the original tapes, but at least we have backups.

the restored footage, shown looks a lil clearer.

That's a great story, Chet! I don't think I've every spoke to anyone famous like that. I guess I wouldn't know what to say, anyway. The 1960's were a great time to be a kid! I never needed very much to be happy. Not like today. I remember watching that with my parents... it just amazed me.

I'm just wondering why NASA didn't take better care of the tapes... So far, I've heard the story of the tapes being lost. But, then I heard that they think someone may have recorded over them to save money... I guess every workplace has their Homer Simpson.

Anyway, just think... a man on the moon and Woodstock in the same year! How weird is that?

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Chet that was a cool story. I wasn't even born then but i wish i could've expereinced the sixties which in my opinion was the best decade for alot of things.

Thanks for sharing a cool story Chet.

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very cool chet, I was at a basketball camp in IN. They took us all to a auditorium and wheeled out a black and white and we all watched the landing, I guess I was 11.

Agreed, and that is such a cool story, CA.

You must be a conversation starter at parties, with a story like that. :]

I was just watching history channel chet, they had buzz and rest of the guys. Its very cool watching the footage

Cool story indeed.

I wonder when the conspiracy theorists will drag out their arguements again. In this case, Wikipedia has a good overview of the primary theories and how to debunk them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moo ... ccusations

I'm most familiar with the photography claims and can say from personal experience with camera in hand that most of the hoax theorists are provably wrong. One of my favorites and one of the first was "why no stars in the background? There's no air on the moon so shouldn't they be prominent?"

No ... any very bright foreground (such as the very reflective lunar surface) will darken the background. I have a picture of a flower I took in broad daylight and yet the background is almost jet black. No lab tricks, no Photoshopping two different pictures together -- it's just the way light works. Even so, I love reading some of these theories ... they often make better comedy than what's on TV.

[quote="CAFeathers"]Today is the 4oth Anniversary of the famed first walk on the moon.


I was at the University of Vermont, in summer session, taking a chemistry course in Quantitative Analysis. My '58 Stratocaster was in the hands of CBS-Fender in California, allegedly being refinished at my request.

(Let's not get into the logic of it now...I have already commented elsewhere that in my vintage, 'roadworn' was not the look we loved, nor were Strats held in the esteem they are now. Which is why EC walked away with a clutch of them dirt cheap from ShoBud, that resulted in a million dollar legend).

So after Chappaquiddick, the moon landing, Woodstock, and the lot, my guitar returned at the end of the summer. Twenty five years later I was to learn that the body had been replaced, not refinished.

.....and now you know the rest of the story.

Doc.

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