Apollo 11: Original TV broadcast of the first moonwalk

This is what they showed on television in Australia and New Zealand when man first walked on the Moon. They had a better picture than the US for the first three minutes, but otherwise it was what some 530 million people round the world saw exactly 50 years ago (to the minute from when this post went up).

The pretty colour pictures appeared later, though they were taken during this moonwalk, the only one Apollo 11 had.

It was the largest live television audience up to that time, though more people would later see Muhammad Ali light the Olympic torch in 1996 and Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.

See also:

• Apollo 11
• made possible by:
  • Robert Goddard
  • Hidden Figures
  • Apollo 8
• 9/11
• Olympics