Apollo 11

The First Men on the Moon

16–24 July 1969



Buzz Aldrin salutes the flag


In this section

Honeysuckle

Pre-Mission TWX

Australian TV report on Honeysuckle and Sydney Video

Prime Minister John Gorton visits Honeysuckle, July 21 1969

The Honeysuckle Station Log for Apollo 11

audio Audio recorded at Honeysuckle

audio Honeysuckle comms + Net 2 as TV begins (in Apollo 11 TV section)

Photographs of the TV monitors at Honeysuckle

 

Manned Space Flight Network

audio The Launch – audio from the Network Control Console

audio The Lunar Descent and Landing – audio from the Network Controller’s and Flight Director’s Consoles

audio The Lunar Liftoff

Walter Cronkite visits Goldstone before the mission

Neil Armstrong visits Goddard to thank the MSFN

 

Australian Media coverage

audio The Launch – Derryn Hinch on Australian radio

audio The Boniecki Tapes – how Australians heard the Moonwalk

Press releases and newspaper clippings

ARIA

The Launch – as seen from 43,000 feet

Seeing the Apollo 11 Re-entry

 

Other

audio An independent recording of the Landing

The Apollo 11 crew in Sydney – Saturday 1st November 1969

The Apollo 11 mission patch.


See Also:

Honeysuckle Creek and Apollo 11 TV from the Moon
(separate section)

Apollo 11 TV at Honeysuckle

 

(Photo of Buzz Aldrin, at top, courtesy of Kipp Teague’s Apollo Image Gallery)