Was this whole thing super anti-climatic. I can't even call it that as I didn't feel any buzz going into this at all. We became such a instant visual society I think the description of it and a stationary visual of the control room isn't really going to grab the imagination. CNN coverage was just weird with William Shatner as an expert guest.
The coverage I saw showed silhouetted people in a control room standing about looking at monitors, etc. When the landing occurred, we were warned of a two minute grace period before a verification-of-landing signal was to be received. Five plus minutes later a single, weak signal was received from the lander, leading many of us to believe that there had been a problem with the landing. The two commentators I was watching mentioned the signal and a company bigwig's voice came on, congratulating all the workers for a job well done. There was much clapping and shoulder slapping and then the coverage was rapidly ended. The whole thing seemed kind of phony to me, but, the last info I read says that the first picture on the moon is being transmitted to earth, so I guess it was a successful landing after all.
