British television coverage of the Apollo 11 mission, the first crewed landing on the Moon, lasted from 16 to 24 July 1969. Three UK television channels, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV, provided extensive coverag
James Burke, one of the main presenters of the BBC's coverage of the Apollo 11 mission, reviews its launch earlier in the day on 16 July 1969
BBC Apollo 11 studio, with James Burke (standing), Cliff Michelmore and Patrick Moore (seated), June 1969
Michael Charlton reports for the BBC from Houston Mission Control
A mounted slowscan TV camera shows Neil Armstrong as he climbs down the ladder of the Lunar Module Eagle to the surface. Paul Haney at ITN described it as "the greatest thing to happen since fish crawled up on the beach and survived."
NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that manages flight control
White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005
Exterior of the Mission Control building
Mercury Control at Cape Canaveral during a simulation of Mercury-Atlas 8 in 1962
MOCR 2 at the conclusion of Apollo 11 in 1969