Tomorrow 50 years ago, the Apollo 11 Terminal Countdown started, and this time next week 50 years ago, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon!
And today 50 years ago, Soviet Russia launched the unmanned Luna 15 to the Moon. They had to tell the USA the flight path so that it would not crash into Apollo 11. Unfortunately it crashed into the Moon instead.
In Britain you could have listened to the no.1 record on the radio, Thunderclap Newman's 'Something in the Air'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE
Or on BBC 1 you could have watched the Film Matinee starring Bing Crosby singing 'Don't let that moon get away'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSewdsqTqM
Time 21:30.
Distance 241,921 miles.
Waxing gibbous phase.
160 degrees S compass point (azimuth).
Altitude 15.0 degrees.
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