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One small step for man, one giant leap for BBC Television

Celebrating 50 years since man set foot on the moon, how did the BBC cover "the greatest media event of all time"? Image: Off-screen picture of American astronaut Neil Armstrong (Flight Commander) ...
BBC

Apollo 11 launch: 'If you can survive the simulations, the mission is a piece of cake'

Apollo 11 launched this week in 1969, carrying the first men to land on the Moon. In the months leading up to the historic take-off, Nasa put the crew through gruelling, relentless simulations in ...
Daily Express

Moon landing shock: How Apollo astronauts ignored NASA’s instructions in ‘mutiny’

On October 11, 1968, the Apollo 7 mission launched from Cape Kennedy bound for low-Earth orbit to test the Apollo command and service module. It was the first of the famous Apollo series, which would ...
Daily Express

Moon landing: ‘Highly classified’ Soviet lunar mission launched 3 days before Apollo 11

THE Moon landing of Apollo 11 was not the first mission to hit the lunar surface, after it was revealed that the Soviet Union launched a "highly classified" operation three days earlier. More than ...
BBC

One small step for man, one giant leap for BBC Television

Image: Off-screen picture of American astronaut Neil Armstrong (Flight Commander) walking on the surface of the moon, taken during a live transmission on BBC One, Monday 21st July 1969. July 21 at ...