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2009.07.20: July 20, 2009: Headlines: COS - Micronesia: Science: Space: 1960s: Peninsula Daily: Marlene Newman recalls Moon Landing from Micronesia
Marlene Newman recalls Moon Landing from Micronesia
"I was 21 and in Peace Corps training on the island of Ponape, Micronesia," recalled Marlene Newman of Port Townsend. "I remember all the volunteers and trainers gathered around a shortwave radio that evening, looking up at the moon and listening to the lunar landing. "I thought, 'I am bathing in a stream, living in a thatched hut, and there is an American stepping onto the moon.' "It was an amazing, life-changing adventure for both of us in very different ways," added Newman, who went on to teach English on the Micronesian isle of Kosrae for two years.
Marlene Newman recalls Moon Landing from Micronesia
Peninsula connections to man's first lunar landing more than memories
By Diane Urbani de la Paz
Peninsula Daily News
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the Peninsula Daily News presents the second part of a two-part package commemorating the event. The first article appeared Sunday.
The images are painted across our collective memory, in bright detail, of a summer Sunday 40 years ago.
And these flashbacks still feel good: The Apollo 11 moon landing, coming as it did on July 20, 1969, near the end of a tumultuous decade, gave us a chance to rejoice together, together with people the world over.
Readers responded, with great enthusiasm, to the Peninsula Daily News' invitation to share perspectives on the lunar mission of July 1969.
Dozens of e-mails poured in from people all over the North Olympic Peninsula: from a science teacher who was a toddler gazing at the television to a man who gleaned the news from a notebook in Siberia to a woman who helped translate data from the moon's surface into photographs seen by millions.
The messages reflect many emotions, but joy jumps out farthest. Americans living far from home marveled at the feat, along with their neighbors in places as diverse as South Africa, Australia and Siberia.
View from Micronesia
"I was 21 and in Peace Corps training on the island of Ponape, Micronesia," recalled Marlene Newman of Port Townsend.
"I remember all the volunteers and trainers gathered around a shortwave radio that evening, looking up at the moon and listening to the lunar landing.
"I thought, 'I am bathing in a stream, living in a thatched hut, and there is an American stepping onto the moon.'
"It was an amazing, life-changing adventure for both of us in very different ways," added Newman, who went on to teach English on the Micronesian isle of Kosrae for two years.
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