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NASA TV Vintage Video

This video was aired when NASA Television was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Award recognizes the agency for engineering excellence and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the technological innovations that made possible the first live TV broadcast from the moon by the Apollo 11 crew on July 20, 1969.
(Source YouTube:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYyENdNiAPM

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40th Anniversary: Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

NASA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing and the Apollo space program.  It was forty years ago when Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins circled the moon in the Apollo 11 spacecraft and entered the United States space program into a new chapter in history.
NASA is celebrating with multiple events surrounding the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing; check out the following links for more information on this historic event!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
http://twitter.com/AP11_CAPCOM
http://twitter.com/AP11_SPACECRAFT

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