My family was on vacation and had spent the day in Carlsbad caverns then ate dinner and returned to our motel room to watch the landing . I remember how distressed I was at the room's poor reception . I was 12 at the time .
Chris
We were living in a caravan because my parents had sold our house and hadn't bought anywhere else yet so had no television at the time and we missed the whole event.
I remember after the moon landings being glued to the television, in the mid 1970's, for what seemed like hours, as a child, waiting for Americans and Russians to open a hatch between 2 spacecraft so that they could meet in space for the first time.