45 years ago people still weren’t sure if we would ever walk on the moon. On July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 took off on their historic mission, and four days later, on July 20th, they landed on the moon. This event was one of the most important things that had happened in human history so far. Not only was it a huge breakthrough for astronomers and other scientists, it was also a landmark in media history, drawing the largest television audience for any live event broadcast. The footage that people watched that day, 45 years ago, is a very important part of our history and has been preserved accordingly. However, because the first lunar landing was such a momentous event, there was a lot more media produced at the time, than just the footage broadcast from the moon. If you think of the lunar landing broadcast as a newscast, then there were in fact newscasts about newscasts. We think it’s important to preserve these pieces of history as well. So far we’ve been able to digitize two examples of these news stories more
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