July 20, 1969:
the day human first set foot on another world, our Earth's own Moon.
Honoring this 40th anniversary, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day features an image of that event. Click on the image to see the NASA archives original and compare it to this 2009 digital restoration.
And, there's a link to a series of Apollo 11 Partial Restoration HD Video Streams. NASA has posted the first of these "One Small Step" on YouTube, as a sample.
Guinness World Records lists the audience for the first Apollo walk on the moon as the largest ever for a space event, noting it "...was watched on TV by an estimated 600 million people, a fifth of the world's population at the time."
Can you remember that event? Where were you when it occurred?
Enjoy this anniversary as we celebrate the second half of this International Year of Astronomy!
