'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast
1969 · Work
Six hundred million people — a fifth of humanity then alive — watch a ghostly figure descend a ladder and hear the words 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. The largest shared live experience in history to that point, and the image the whole race was run to produce.
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More from The Space Race
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit (1965)
- Apollo 1 fire (1967)
Around 1969
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)