Apollo 11 Anniversary Link-O-Rama

By Nancy Atkinson - July 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM UTC | Missions
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The Apollo 11 40th anniversary is coming at us fast and furious! With restored images and video, mission audio, interviews, and special features, who can keep track of it all? Well, we're going to try. We'll post here all the links we can find that has anything to do with the anniversary. If you find something of interest elsewhere you think we should add,

email it to Nancy

or post it in the comments, and we'll add it. This will be Apollo 11 anniversary HQ!

Audio, Video, etc:

Listen to Apollo 11 mission audio "live" to the minute as it happened 40 years ago (July 16-24) or listen later at any time:

We Choose the Moon

High-Definition Restored Apollo 11 Video from NASA

Listen to audio recorded from inside the Apollo 11 spacecraft which have never been heard before by the public

Read the transcriptions of the recorded audio

Find other recordings and transcriptions here.

Video from INA French television's broadcasts from July 1969

IYA Malta's Moon for All Mankind video

Cool websites:

NASA's Apollo 11 40th Anniversary website

NASA's Apollo Missions website

NASA's Interactive Tranquility Base

Apollo 11 Timeline

NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journals

Detailed Summaries of the Apollo missions

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Apollo 11 site

The Boston Globe's Big Picture does Apollo 11

Discovery News Apollo 11 Slideshow

Dramatic panoramas of the Apollo landing sites.

Miscellaneous:

Free online book from the National Acadamies Press: <a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11954&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com