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Moon Landing Broadcast
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The live television transmission of Apollo 11's Moon walk on 20 July 1969, relayed through tracking stations in Australia and California and watched by an estimated audience of some 600 million people, the largest to that date. It remains the defining case of broadcasting as shared planetary experience.
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Milestone Year When20 July 1969; audience figures are estimates 1 LocationThe lunar TV signal was received simultaneously by ground stations at Goldstone, California; Honeysuckle Creek; and Parkes in New South Wales, Australia, and relayed to NASA Mission Control in Houston, Texas, for worldwide broadcast. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The signal reached world audiences through the satellite and ground station network.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
2. The Conversation
The Conversation Media GroupNot one but two Aussie dishes were used to get the TV signals back from the Apollo 11 moonwalkQuote, Not one but two Aussie dishes were used to get the TV signals back from the Apollo 11 moonwalk
The 64m antenna at Goldstone, the 26m antenna at Honeysuckle Creek and the 64m dish at Parkes all received the signal simultaneously.
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