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On this date 38 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. It still boggles my mind that some people still believe thew moon landings did not happen.

Here’s a picture of Neil during the first lunar excursion. If you look at the visor, you’ll see a reflection of the photographer, who was Buzz Aldrin, of course.

I do remember watching the moon landings on my family’s Zenith black-and-white television. Last year I set up a Facebook group for people who watched one of the six Apollo landings on television when it happened. For the youngsters, there’s always the “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet” group. Maybe I should I start a “Skylab sucked” Facebook group, because Skylab really did suck.

Space: Yahoo! News - India Rethinks Plan to Send Man to Moon: Over 25% of India’s 1 billion people live in poverty. India doesn’t need to go to the moon, or build nuclear weapons, for that matter.

USA: CNN.com - ‘Giant leap’ opens world of possibility - Jul 16, 2004: And I was watching. I think. Hey, I was 4 at the time. “Thirty-five years ago, two Americans landed on the moon, taking the human race to another body beyond Earth for the first time. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, piloting the Eagle landing module, touched down in the moon’s Sea of Tranquility, on July 20, 1969. A third U.S. astronaut, Michael Collins, was in the orbiting command module overhead. ‘That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,’ said Armstrong.”