1969 Lunar Landing re-broadcast tonight 6/20/12 with Walter Cronkite

[The_Sib]

Apollo 11 Live TV Coverage



Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the first lunar landing and moon walk, co-starring one of Montclair’s most famous native sons, Buzz Aldrin. If you want to relive the experience, a website will be re-broadcasting acclaimed CBS anchor Walter Cronkite’s play-by-play of the glorious event. Toast Aldrin with orange Tang and moon walk back in time to 1969!

Here’s the schedule:

Moon landing broacast start: 4:10:30 pm EDT on July 20
Moon landing shown: 4:17:40 pm EDT
Moon landing broadcast end: 4:20:15 pm EDT
Moon walk broadcast start: 10:51:27 pm EDT
First step on Moon: 10:56:15 pm EDT
Nixon speaks to the Eagle crew: approx 11:51:30 pm EDT
Moon walk broadcast end: 12:00:30 pm EDT on July 21



The First Lunar Landing

 

[Johnny Utah]

 

[tomk6251]

Ah yes, it was the summer of 69...oh, yea.

 

[Barleywine]

Ah yes, it was the summer of 69...oh, yea.

Good tune Tomk. I saw Bryan Adams open for The Kinks (I was there for The Kinks) at the Meadowlands Arena. Poor guy had hardly anyone listening to him, but he eventually did OK for himself.

Great post Sib. July 20th always means moon landing day to me. Watched every launch that I could growing up. It's 43 years later, and I still think that landing on the moon is the most amazing thing ever accomplished. Talk about over-reaching with 1960's technology, and then pulling it off because we invented the future in the process. Just incredible.

Buzz Aldrin is one tough guy. About 10 years ago, some guy who was one of those "moon landing was a hoax" conspiracy theorists, sandbagged Aldrin into a confrontation. The guy called Aldrin a coward and a liar, and Buzz just socked him right in the jaw. The guy was in his 30's and pretty big too; whereas none of the astronauts were physically big. It was a requirement that you had to be under 6 feet tall to qualify because you had to fit into some pretty confined places. None of that mattered to Buzz. He popped him pretty good.