The Sky at Night: Season 2019, Episode 6

2019 - 6: The Moon, the Mission and the BBC

Maggie Aderin-Pocock looks through the archives to show how, with assistance from Nasa, the BBC reported the Apollo 11 mission, the first lunar expedition to put humans on the Moon. She is joined by scientist John Zarneki, the first British astronaut Helen Sharman and writer and broadcaster James Burke, who reported the momentous story at the time.