Neil Armstrong narrates his moon landing using Google Moon

[Marian Schwaller Carney]

Really this is amazing. I thought some of you might be interested. Boy, what a day and time that all was, great time to be a kid!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...ntcmp=features

[Cynthia Prentice]

Thanks so much for a heads up on this.

My mom worked for Channel 2, KPRC Houston at the time of the moon landing. The televised moon landing went out to the nation from the KPRC station. Somewhere in my things I have the mission schedule that they handed out to reporters. My mom was the switchboard operator for KPRC and she is the one who listened to the feedback from America...as she answered calls from the public as man took that first giant step. She said people would call the station and just talk in awe about what was happening. One person called the station and was almost hysterical because they thought the world was going to come to an end because man was on the moon. What an interesting glimpse of history.

[Marian Schwaller Carney]

Oh my Cynthia what a great bit of history! If you mom is still with us, it would be worth getting an oral history - an interview of her telling this story - if this has not already happened inone form or another, and submitting it to the Library of Congress or Smithsonian. This is unique history. Anyone else still around for her team, they could be included. Come to think of it, the TV station could do this easily. How wonderful!

[Jim Franklin]

Thanks, Pastor Carney. It was a great time to have the perspective of being in my Masters program in Geography at the University of Idaho. Since the landing occured on a Sunday evening I watched with a friend. The department chairman had called off our department's classes for Monday to make sure we had no excuse for not watching the telecast. I have a recording of Walter Cronkites report of the event and have played it for my history classes.

[Marian Schwaller Carney]

Masters in Geography, Jim ?! Now, that would be fascinating, I love maps and terrain and etc. So, did you all decide the surface of the moon looked like Sudbury Ontario after all?