Remembering Walter Cronkite's words on the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing


https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/media/apollo-11-cbs-walter-cronkite-anniversary/index.html


"We went to the moon on television."


That's the lead on this wonderful new column by LA Times critic Robert Lloyd. Television rallied support for NASA, TV newsmen educated Americans about space, and the space program provided a bounty of dramatic programming for the broadcast networks.
"Television pictures afforded the audience the virtual sensibility of being there with Armstrong," James R. Hansen wrote in his Armstrong biography "First Man." Without the pictures, "the human experience of the First Man's first step" would have been "very different.









I always thought it was cool that someone took the time to photograph their TV during the moon landing

First Moon Landing Photos

First Moon Landing Photos