The moon landing: the TV show of the (half) century
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Jul 19, 2019
4 minutes
We went to the moon on television.
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, as the climax to a long-running series that began with President Kennedy's famous 1962 called shot - "We choose to go to the moon in this decade," a sound bite that seems to have found its way into nearly every related documentary since - men walked on the moon. More than half a billion people, about 14% of the global population, watched in more or less real time from Earth - the delay in signal from the moon a mere 1.25 seconds, not including
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