In all the Nordic countries national TV covered the moon landing in 1969, but this is the only study of how one of them actually did it. Norway's public service broadcaster, the NRK, made their longest television broadcast to date, with their live coverage of Apollo 11's landing on the...
"For several weeks prior to the scheduled lift-off ofApollo 11back in July, 1969, the pastor of our church, Dean Woodruff, and I had been struggling to find the right symbol for the first lunar landing. We wanted to express our feeling that what ma...
The moon landing date was July 20th, 1969, when two American men became the first to walk on the moon. They were part of the Apollo 11 mission, which was a major turning point in the political and economic rivalry known as the Space Race. In addition to its political implications, the...
1999, when "Pearl Harbor will be as remote as the War of the Roses," the Apollo 11 moon landing may well be remembered as the most significant event of the 20th century. And that includes two world wars, the development of Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum physics and nuclear ...
Claims the Apollo 11 mission was staged began soon after astronauts first set foot on the moon in 1969.
Michael Collins was a U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. Collins circled the Moon in Columbia, while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed in the lunar module Eagle. Learn more about Col
Launched from Earth on July 16, 1969, the three astronauts ofApollo 11arrived in orbit of the moon on July 19. The following day, Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin climbed into their lunar module “Eagle” and achieved humanity’s first landing on another...
It's time, we will finally do the first manned landing on another celestial body. During this mission we will require both the docking and EVA know-how from the Gemini 6A and 7 mission, as well as what we learned about moon landing from Luna 9. The six moon landings of the Apollo ...
JFK Sets Goal for Man on Moon John F. Kennedy's sets the goal of the United States to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth.Watching Apollo 11's live feed from the Moon, the President could only hope he wouldn't have to read it. He hoped, instead, that Apollo ...
The landing and subsequent moonwalk, watched by millions of people around the world, inspired many. Talk to any astronaut these days, and it is likely they went into space as a direct result of watching the Apollo 11 landing. Follow along with the mission, in real time ...