Dan Dubno describes THE moment:
“Forty years ago, a man walked on the Moon.
Words fail to describe the magnificence of this accomplishment.
Yet, much as I wished it might one day be my foot that stepped out beyond this Earth, being an astronaut didn’t seem as much fun as doing what Walter Cronkite was doing.
A rocket, more than 350-feet tall, lifted the astronauts into space.
But it was Walter Cronkite and the team of journalists he inspired that brought the rest of us to the Moon.
“Whew, boy…, ” he said, as Armstrong descended the ladder. As the world saw a boot finally touch lunar dust, words briefly failed Walter Cronkite.
Then he exclaimed, “Armstrong is on the moon — Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old American, standing on the surface of the moon.” Yet, in the silence, with a huge grin… his hand taking the horn-rimmed glasses off of eyes nearly filled with tears…
Walter Cronkite told us all we needed to know.
Thank you, sir.”
And this will be my last post about Cronkite and the Apollo 11.