Apollo 11 anniversary

Title

Apollo 11 anniversary

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

21 Jul 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:02

Description

Paul Woodley reports on the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 and the USA’s future plans to return to space. Includes excerpts from speeches given by the Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin (i.e. Buzz Aldrin); Congressman Barry Frank on housing being a better allocation of the money; Senator Al Gore on the lack of realism in President George H.W. Bush’s plans. For AM programme.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Michael Collins; Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; Barry Frank; Al Gore

Keywords

USA; Politics; Anniversary celebrations; Housing; USSR; Finance; Moon; Space exploration; Moon landings; Space stations; NASA; Astronauts; Mars (planet); Space shuttles; Anniversaries; AM (radio programme); Washington DC; George H. W. Bush; Apollo 11

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