We were in Kenya at the time, and heard the landing and those now famous words on the Voice of America radio; people in the UK (like my mother) were glued to their TV's to watch the event, and it think it had less of an impact to us in Kenya, in a bush school which didn't have electricity, let alone TV !
I see in a letter I wrote to my mother on 28th July (presumably in reply to one she wrote to me about it) ... "Lucky you, seeing all of the moon shot on TV ... we heard it on VoA on the Hicks radio, and because we are nine hours different to America, we listened until about half past midnight; the moon walk would have been 4.30 a.m. Kenya time, so we didn't hear that, though the Hicks recorded it on tape, and we heard it the next day."
Later that year (or the next) a lump of moon rock went on tour to all the museums and government centres in Kenya. I have to say, it was interesting, but somewhat under-whelming. It looked like any lump of rock from one of the arid areas of Kenya !
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