Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
I can remember walking on the moon.
For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
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