17 Jul 2019

Nga Taonga Sound Archives:

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 17 July 2019

When we first set foot on the moon, 50 years ago this Sunday, there was no live TV coverage of the momentous event in New Zealand. There was no Facebook live feed, and we weren't Tweeting our reactions to the world either.

Instead, Kiwis were glued to their transistor radios. Today, Sarah Johnston from the Sound Archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision looks back at how we heard the Moon landing.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong's boot print. [NASA via wikimedia commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Apollo_11_bootprint.jpg]

Apollo landing 45 cover \ supplied Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

[NASA via wikimedia commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:As11-40-5886.jpg#/media/File:As11-40-5886,_uncropped.jpg]

Listener - radio listings Apollo \ supplied Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision