The Apollo 11 40th anniversary is coming at us fast and furious! With restored images and video, mission audio, interviews, and special features, who can keep track of it all? Well, we’re going to try. We’ll post here all the links we can find that has anything to do with the anniversary. If you find something of interest elsewhere you think we should add, email it to Nancy or post it in the comments, and we’ll add it. This will be Apollo 11 anniversary HQ!
Audio, Video, etc:
Listen to Apollo 11 mission audio “live” to the minute as it happened 40 years ago (July 16-24) or listen later at any time: We Choose the Moon
High-Definition Restored Apollo 11 Video from NASA
Read the transcriptions of the recorded audio
Find other recordings and transcriptions here.
Video from INA French television’s broadcasts from July 1969
IYA Malta’s Moon for All Mankind video
Cool websites:
NASA’s Apollo 11 40th Anniversary website
NASA’s Apollo Missions website
NASA’s Interactive Tranquility Base
NASA’s Apollo Lunar Surface Journals
Detailed Summaries of the Apollo missions
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Apollo 11 site
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture does Apollo 11
Discovery News Apollo 11 Slideshow
Dramatic panoramas of the Apollo landing sites.
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