Happy First Moon Landing Day

Remembering Tranquility Base.

It's been 39 years since we heard those famous words announcing that humans had finally reached another world:

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

When mission commander Neil Armstrong finally took the "small step," I was watching in the Fillmore West in San Francisco. In a corner of the huge concert hall they had a large screen showing man’s first steps on the moon. The activities at Tranquility Base fit right in with the light show.

Where were you when Armstrong took that the "giant leap for mankind?"

The following video shows the Eagle's descent and landing, Armstrong's first steps on the moon, activities at Tranquility Base, and the Eagle's return to the orbiting Columbia:

PHOTO: Aldrin Looks Back at Tranquility Base - Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin was photographed by mission commander Neil Armstrong. In the foreground is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package; beyond it is the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector; in the far right background is the Lunar Module "Eagle." Image credit: NASA

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[jean daniel jolivald]

Moon landing night at the fillmore west
"69 I was 21 and I called the road my own"
from France 2 months hitchiking across U.S.A.

They were giving those "moonpills" at the entry of the place, stuck on a piece of cardboard sayin "moonpill"

Put me in a state of acting in a slow movie...
Country Joe and the Fish played, against that bloody war going on, while Nixon was talking peace to the astronauts ("for the future!" they answered)
and totally in tune with the slow movie I was in came Joe Cocker.
Do you remember me? At a point of the concert I felt the need to salute him, I climbed on stage ,touched him back, and got ejected with a little help of his friends.
Who was that little eurasian girl I met that night, slow burning love, great night!

[Keith Jaeger]

I was also there. Do you recall the bands that played that night?