Happy Moon Landing Day

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Post a moon coin commemorating 7-20-69

RiveraFamilyCollect

I think I have an apollo coin I can post when I get home.
I misremembered. I needed a sterling for ping testing, the apollo ones kept getting bid up, i got an aussie one. Sorry.

johnny9434

A few I heard went past umm never mind. I'll see if I can find one

1northcoin

Thanks for the reminder:

OAKSTAR

Morgan White

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Very cool! True heros.

Jzyskowski1

I know the 74 isn’t the same but fits the topic and was a gift from a formite.

1northcoin

@Manifest_Destiny said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Very cool! True heros.

Thanks. The display belongs to my cousin but is available for public viewing (along with lots of other cool memorabilia) at his Las Vegas museum. Here is a link to some I posted over on the photo thread:

(One will have to scroll down to almost the end of page 350 of the thread to get to the Memorabilia Museum photos.)

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1002817/random-picture-thread-for-friday/p350

OAKSTAR

erscolo

I watched the actual landing back in the day and I am still here. Somewhere I have the full set of Apollo 11 commemoratives issued in 2019, clad, silver and gold.

1northcoin

@erscolo said:
I watched the actual landing back in the day and I am still here. Somewhere I have the full set of Apollo 11 commemoratives issued in 2019, clad, silver and gold.

Yeah, same here as to watching it. I was in Japan at the time and we saw it on a TV at the restaurant closest to where we lived. Interestingly both the Pacific and Domestic editions of Newsweek Magazine unknowingly selected close to identical shots of the landing for their covers.

derryb

spent my teenage days surfing all day at Folly Beach, SC. The particular week of the moon landing surf jumped from 2-3 ft. to 7-10 ft. and glassy all week. Best I can figure the moon landing set the moon off kilter.

D808LF

1northcoin

@1northcoin said:

@erscolo said:
I watched the actual landing back in the day and I am still here. Somewhere I have the full set of Apollo 11 commemoratives issued in 2019, clad, silver and gold.

Yeah, same here as to watching it. I was in Japan at the time and we saw it on a TV at the restaurant closest to where we lived. Interestingly both the Pacific and Domestic editions of Newsweek Magazine unknowingly selected close to identical shots of the landing for their covers.

Here is the "Rest of the Story."

54 Years ago from today, on July 20, 1969 Man Landed on the Moon,

I watched the moon landing on TV in Kobe, Japan. The TV was in the closest eating place to where I then resided. As I recall their specialty was Chicken Katsu, a deep fried breaded chicken cutlet. In retrospect it seems like that was the only thing on the menu.

(Although I didn't realize it at the time, I learned years later that the eating location was part of the headquarters for the Yamaguchi branch of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. In recent times, when Kobe suffered a devastating earthquake the Yakuza headquartered there made available, through their transportation connections, trucks to move the relief supplies throughout Kobe that had reached the close-by Church.

Here are my contemporary photos as taken in Japan in July of 1969:

Estil

I was born in 1980 so I sadly didn't get to see the moon landings as they happened and I'm beyond saddened and disappointed that we've not been back to the moon in 50 years. I mean we should've been to Mars or at least had colonies in orbit and the moon and such by now (though no one back then could've dreamed how far we'd go in terms of computer/communication tech; like Internet and YouTube and smartphones and whatnot). I'm just glad SpaceX and even other countries are finally lighting a fire under NASA's butt and maybe they'll be a new space race.

And yes it'd be killer if I get to live to see humans land/walk on Mars like Buzz has always dreamed of but I think we need to get good at making routine trips to and from and building bases and colonies and such on the moon first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRI6BghJ1PU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQibkV_V8-c

And did you guys know France did something neither the US nor USSR did? They sent man's REAL best friend into space and returned her safely to the Earth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-tpmvGRoyw

ricko

I certainly watched the moon landing on TV at the time. I see from above, there are several others that did also. It was certainly thrilling to watch, and a monumental achievement. Cheers, RickO

OAKSTAR

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Cameonut

I remember the day well. Was at our cottage in Lake Geneva, WI and it was a nice summer day. Those were the days before cable so there was only ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. TV reception was always horrible so it was a matter of adjusting the rabbit ears and aluminum foil to get some sort of picture on the black and white portable TV. We had audio but video was a bit like it came from the moon.......

D808LF

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Tom Hanks wasn't available to sign.

1northcoin

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Very astute observation. When I first noticed there was no Apollo 13 I thought, oh just like many skyscrapers skip 13th floors as bad luck, that must have been why we had no Apollo 13. Thanks to D808LF for reminding that the intended Apollo 13 astronauts had their mission aborted. Guess there actually is something to that superstition that surrounds #13.

Oh, as to the initial question, yes those are actual signed autographs. Here is a link to the museum for anyone headed to Las Vegas who wants to see the display in person:

https://nostalgiastreetrods.com

OAKSTAR

@1northcoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Very astute observation. When I first noticed there was no Apollo 13 I thought, oh just like many skyscrapers skip 13th floors as bad luck, that must have been why we had no Apollo 13. Thanks to D808LF for reminding that the intended Apollo 13 astronauts had their mission aborted. Guess there actually is something to that superstition that surrounds #13.

Oh, as to the initial question, yes those are actual signed autographs. Here is a link to the museum for anyone headed to Las Vegas who wants to see the display in person:

https://nostalgiastreetrods.com

I would have thought Apollo 13 would have been the "center piece" of that framed display. It was a miracle they brought those guy back alive!!

1northcoin

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Very astute observation. When I first noticed there was no Apollo 13 I thought, oh just like many skyscrapers skip 13th floors as bad luck, that must have been why we had no Apollo 13. Thanks to D808LF for reminding that the intended Apollo 13 astronauts had their mission aborted. Guess there actually is something to that superstition that surrounds #13.

Oh, as to the initial question, yes those are actual signed autographs. Here is a link to the museum for anyone headed to Las Vegas who wants to see the display in person:

https://nostalgiastreetrods.com

I would have thought Apollo 13 would have been the "center piece" of that framed display. It was a miracle they brought those guy back alive!!

Nice.

JBK

@1northcoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@1northcoin said:
Thanks for the reminder:

Are these actual signed autographs? I thought I heard once that Neil Armstrong's autograph/signature is one of the most rare and valuable.... Is this true?

EDIT: No Apollo 13 on this display??

Very astute observation. When I first noticed there was no Apollo 13 I thought, oh just like many skyscrapers skip 13th floors as bad luck, that must have been why we had no Apollo 13. Thanks to D808LF for reminding that the intended Apollo 13 astronauts had their mission aborted. Guess there actually is something to that superstition that surrounds #13.

Oh, as to the initial question, yes those are actual signed autographs. Here is a link to the museum for anyone headed to Las Vegas who wants to see the display in person:

https://nostalgiastreetrods.com

Perhaps these are missions and astronauts that made it to the Moon? For example, the Apollo 11 set is missing Michael Collins, who stayed above.