From the archives: Apollo 11 begins journey to moon on July 16, 1969

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying three astronauts to the moon. CBS News’ Walter Cronkite anchored live television coverage with retired astronaut Wally Schirra.

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[dream.machine]

The quality of this archive of Apollo 11 is amazing! The Legendary mission that made history.
It's amazing to see this 54 years after it happened in this quality.

[tunemxr]

I remember this moment like it was yesterday. Thanks CBS. R.I.P. Walter Cronkite, Neil Armstrong as well…

[Indiskret]

I've watched Apollo 11 liftoff hundreds of times, but still had to pause because tears clouded my eyes. In my lifetime, this will always be the crowning moment of what we human beings can achieve if we set our eyes on a common goal, and every individual doing their utmost. Thanks to all the heroes involved in past and future endeavors to explore and populate space.

[robynmasters]

On July 17th, while those boys were still on their way to making their legendary landing, my family was serving me my first birthday cake with only 1 little candle in it. I was still learning to walk and talk.

[groovyroses]

Wow. even though I was 2 and half years old when they launched, 54 years later, the launch gives me chills.

[RM-wepx]

500 years from now this will be the only thing they remember about us.

[rayoflight]

Seeing again the faces and voices of those years in the replay of the longest televised marathon that was the Apollo 11 mission - Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Jack King, A.C. Clarke, made like 54 years never truly passed...

[wtmayhew]

The Apollo program consumed about 2.5% of US gross domestic product in the 1960s. By comparison, the Vietnam War was consuming 2.3% GDP, and the Manhattan Project consumed 0.4% GDP during its run. When one considers the enormity of the Apollo Program its seemingly unlikely success is more explainable. Apollo was an economic success too because each Dollar spent, perhaps invested is a better term, there was a five to seven Dollar return. 60+ years later all of us use technology daily which resulted from basic research to support Apollo which otherwise may have never been done, of if done, done later and on a smaller scale.

[marjorie]

I remember that day and where I was as if it was yesterday 😮 what a beautiful memory

[allencarlson]

Takes me back! I was glued to the TV then.

[allgood]

Awesome!.. I saw Buzz Aldrin speak for an hour here in NZ in 2010 about his experience ON the Moon and in space.. great achievement 👍🚀🇳🇿

[markw]

Watched it live and it’s good to see it again!

[zekeonstormpeak]

The Saturn V blasting off is still the most impressive display of power ever!!

[dmprdctns]

Nice n' clear. Thanks CBS... The once king of news reporting.

[Martin-]

Never get tired of seeing those F1 roar to life.

[bobblum]

*Fun Fact:* The first untethered spacewalk was by astronaut Bruce McCandless using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) during a Shuttle flight. But McCandless was also the Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. When Neil Armstrong started coming down the ladder of the LM, he pulled a cord that released a panel which had the TV camera mounted to it. As the images started to come in, that was Bruce McCandless saying _"We're getting a picture on the TV!"._

[kuuv]

The greatest journey of exploration that man has ever embarked on took place on that date.

[danieljulian]

What a time to be 18 years old. Woodstock came one month later. You could watch the moon shot on TV or get drafted to go to Vietnam if you weren't bound for some university. I watched Neil step off the LEM and onto the lunar surface on a crummy little black-and-white TV late in the evening in the US eastern time zone. I confess, it didn't then have the impact on me that it has now. Whatever happens to humanity in the climate crisis, we can still sing, "They Can't Take That Away From Me", at least until there's nobody left to sing.

[Olddeadleadfoot]

I was just a day over twenty five months old. My great grandmother watched this and the moon landing with the rest of the family at the time. She was born in 1882. Eight years old during the Wounded Knee Massacre, then on to the inventions of the radio, car, then both world wars, the invention of T.V., the Korean War, Vietnam and then to see the moon landing at 87 years of age. She died in 1972 at age 90. Quite an eventful stretch of time to be alive.

[davidsanok]

watch this is like seeing a old friend