Yes amazing sense of 'something' very very big, if that makes sense.
Even though I was only 6, I can remember the excitement leading up to it. And my teachers name was Mrs Booth and she set the TV up
at the front of the class and we were all (the whole 14 of us, I have all their names and signatures in a dictionary that we were all given) allowed to crowd around and watch.
The landing craft was built by so many of the bigger kids and the newspapers for weeks beforehand gave away pieces of a model landing craft each week to build. I can still remember
putting my completed model in the back of my Mum's two door Ford Falcon (she loved that car!).
Months later you could write into the newspaper and each kid was sent a small piece of 'moon rock' which I doubt was authentic, I don't know what happened to mine.
Incredible that this was 50 years ago.
They were some very professional astronauts!
" This is Apollo Control at 36 minutes. That's the end of the tape. We have a report on the launch heart rates now from the Flight Surgeon. Commander, Neil Armstrong's heart rate 110, Command Module Pilot, Mike Collins 99, Lunar Module Pilot, Buzz Aldrin 88. These compare with their first Gemini flights, their first liftoff back in the Gemini program