He took no major role in ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the moon landing.
Of course in 2012 we would have been tweeting and blogging about the moon landing in real time.
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The company NASA used, Lowry Digital of Burbank, California, specializes in restoring old Hollywood films and video. iReport.com: Where were you during the moon landing?
In 1969, NASA gave the country and the world one of the most iconic moments in the history of television when it broadcast the moon landing.
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The viewership for the moon landing was unprecedented.
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Mr. Weiner, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Los Angeles from the age of 11, at first claims no great affection for the period between the waning of the Eisenhower era and the moon landing.
Partisan paranoia: Finally, a new poll found that absurd conspiracy theories are sadly alive and well in the USA. These range from the self-evidently absurd (an alien race of lizard people secretly run the world) to old chestnuts like the moon landing was faked.
Studying it may also help us understand the rise of similar conceits that lack any plausible evidence--the belief that evolution could not have happened, that the moon landing was a hoax and, far more egregious, that the Holocaust was a lie and all evidence of it is the result of a massive conspiracy.
That here we would be -- 40 years after the first moon landing -- still wondering when humans will return to the moon.
The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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Relive the 1969 moon landing with this minute-by-minute re-creation that puts you in mission control.
It is the first US sample-return mission since the last Moon landing in 1972.
Over 40 years after the original moon landing Omega is still selling these watches in high volumes.
But cancer is so complicated that it makes the Apollo moon landing seem like building a model airplane.
For three hours I sat across from Armstrong as he regaled us with stories of the first moon landing.
One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.
The game begins in 1957, with the preparations to launch the first satellite into orbit, and ends with the first Moon landing.
When I learned about the upcoming moon landing, I asked someone in a position of authority if it would be possible for me to order my own copy of The Times (which cost 10 cents) covering this piece of history and have the money debited from my candy account at the camp store.
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However, after more than 40 years in the ocean, the serial numbers are so badly corroded that it may not prove possible to identify specific engines, such as those that lifted Apollo 11 to the first landing on the Moon.
Plans to land astronauts on an asteroid have been mooted and the technology involved in landing astronauts on the moon once again would not require too much adaptation to landing on an NEO.
President John F Kennedy's speech at Rice University in 1961, which laid down the gauntlet for a landing on the Moon, seemed a daunting challenge at the time, especially when the US had only sent Alan Shepard on a 20-minute sub-orbital flight.
On a lighter note there is also the transcript, audio recordings and video of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Buzz Aldrin, the pilot on the Apollo 11 moon landing, paid him this tribute in a BBC interview in 2009.
This Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Apollo XVII limited edition watch recognizes the 40th anniversary of the most recent moon landing in 1972.
Armstrong launched onto the world stage in July 1969, when he commanded NASA's Apollo 11 mission to make the first manned moon landing.
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The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.
The footage of the Apollo 11 crew's landing on the Moon is one of 20th Century's most important artefacts.
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The US is not so clear about its intentions right now, but China landing on the Moon later this year and a resurgence of international interest in the Moon could change that.
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The Wall Street Journal called it the biological equivalent of landing a man on the moon.
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