Comments on: One small Step, One Giant Leap…

By: Baino

Baino — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:02:11 +0000

Sorry Hon. I’m so late getting around to blogs and playing big catch up today. I was in the science lab, year 7 at Donvale High School in Melbourne. Very memorable. The moonwalk pics came from OZ and were first formatted upside down so we got to see it a nano second before the rest of the world! Cheers

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:38:23 +0000

@Kirk M. Welcome! Wow. That was a momentous moment for America and humanity. I bet that was a great highlight to your stay in the hospital. I spent quite a lot of time in the hospital as a kid too.

I remember where I was and what I was doing when Challenger blew up. My science class was watching it live with hundreds of thousands of other students. That horrific accident set NASA back a decade.

We will get there though. If anything can be said about the human spirit, it’s that we are resilient and determined.

Thanks for sharing, Kirk.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:21:19 +0000

I was 8 or 9 at the time, laid out in the hospital again during one of my several bad bouts of rheumatic fever. Even with the high fever I distinctly remember sitting up in bed with my eyes fixed on the TV that hung up on the wall near the ceiling. And every nurse, candy stripper and doctor that were momentarily free during that historic event were either standing in my room or sitting on my bed watching that first step.

Something I’ll never forget not just for what I was seeing on that television set but realizing now how much it meant to all those people that crowded into my small room in order to spend that moment in time with a sick kid.

All I can say, even today, is wow.