Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

A clearer picture of Apollo 11’s lunar landing

Where were you when Neil Armstrong took that “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?

This 7-year-old was sitting on the TV room floor in our West Erie home watching Jules Bergman explaining the maneuvers on ABC. As NASA celebrates the 40 year history of the first moon landing, they have released digitally-enhanced footage of this historic event. Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News gives us some perspective of what it took to bring those pictures from the moon back home:

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NASA has gone all out to remember what is probably it’s finest hour. A full 40th anniversary site has been created, including a fascinating real time radio stream of all transmissions between the spacecraft and the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

An amazing tribute of technology and media.