00:00Now bound for the moon, humanity's next great voyage begins.
00:04This is the moment that Artemis II made its way to fly around the moon for the first time in
00:0950 years.
00:10I don't know about you guys but I stayed up quite late to watch the launch of Artemis II.
00:14To me it was a really interesting part of history because the furthest the human race
00:18had flown out in space and we finally know what the mysterious dark side of the moon
00:23actually looks like and watching the launch is a memory that will stick with me for years to come
00:27and I know this because here at Woodstock nursing home in Sittingbourne,
00:31many residents still remember their favourite moments of when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon over 50 years ago.
00:38For Irene, her fondest memory involved dressing up her children.
00:43I put them in a fancy dress the following year and my son went as an astronaut
00:54at six and a half, Apollo six and a half and my daughter was the rocket so she tells me.
01:02I think it might have been a school thing but in those days we didn't have all these clothes,
01:10different costumes and things for everything like book club and things like that that they do these days.
01:18So did you have to make the costumes yourself?
01:21Well, my husband did.
01:23And for Colin, his children were also at the centre of his memory of the event.
01:28The evening that the people that landed on the moon, it was being televised
01:34and they mentioned it was going to be sort of televised live.
01:38So my wife and I had a little talk and we decided it would be a nice idea if we
01:43brought the boys down to watch it
01:46so they could witness in later years that they actually saw the first man land on the moon.
01:53According to Marina, reminiscing about the life stories with elderly residents is vital for their mental health.
01:59If you know something about them, they think, oh, you know me, you know, you know, and it makes that
02:04little connection.
02:05It just brings them a little bit of ease.
02:07I do find when we do reminiscence sessions, like we've done reminiscence session of the space landing,
02:12because obviously America have only just sent up a new spaceship.
02:15So it's about all these nice feelings.
02:17And once we got chatting, it brought back so many different memories.
02:21And with more lunar missions planned in the coming years, I, for one,
02:25am very excited to look back at our fondest memories.
02:28Naila Mahamid for KMTV in Sittingbourne. Over and out.
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