Well, here's what I said in the Orioles-Red Sox thread a couple of days ago. Glad you started a new thread for the topic. BTW, we've talked about this a few years ago on another July 20th.
I was spending that summer in Lakeville, MA, at the Ted Williams' Baseball Camp. We took a day trip to Boston to watch the Sox play that day. It was mid afternoon, mid game, when the PA announcer came on and said "The Eagle has landed!" The game stopped and a several minute standing ovation erupted. Fabulous feeling. The space walk wasn't until very late that night. They brought in a 19" television to the dining hall (back at camp) and those who wanted to stay up and watch were able, although we couldn't see much through the snowy picture and many feet away from the tiny screen. Remember that this was 1969 - no cable TV, no HD, no large screen TV's. But I wasn't going to miss it. I remember watching John Glenn's first flight in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. I was at my friend Kenny's house. I remember hearing the horror of the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, in which Gus Grissom, Ed White (who did the first space walk in a Gemini flight in 1965) and Roger Chaffee were all killed.
I was a space junkie. I am amazed that I haven't flown in space yet. I'm still hoping