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Space on a screen: how do you broadcast a Moon landing?

It took more than one giant leap to share the Moon landing with the world, and Australia played an essential part in the broadcast. Here’s how it all happened.

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Moonshot rocket engines recovered

It’s exciting times for us moon landing fans as it was announced late last week that two Saturn V F-1 rocket engines had been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean. The engines, responsible for powering Apollo astronauts to the moon from 1969-72 had spent more than 40 years lying off the Cape Canaveral coastline. They were...

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The search for lost Apollo 11 tapes

You may have missed the fascinating detective story involving John Sarkissian, Operations Scientist at the CSIRO Parkes Observatory. Find out more about his personal research into the Observatory’s support of the Apollo 11 mission and how it eventually morphed into a search for missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes. As he notes, ‘It’s been a...

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Space on a screen: how do you broadcast a Moon landing?

Moonshot rocket engines recovered

The search for lost Apollo 11 tapes

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