2019 Issue 25 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing PNC

This cover contains an uncirculated $1 Moon Landing coin from The Perth Mint, and a sound chip that plays commentary by Armstrong, including the iconic statement, “That’s one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind”.

MOON LANDING 50 YEARS

In the early afternoon of 21 July 1969 at 12:56 Australian EST (20 July 1969 at 02:56 UTC), NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, stepped onto the lunar surface six and a half hours after landing the lunar module Eagle on the Moon. Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin joined him some 20 minutes later. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two and a half hours outside the space craft, and collected 21.55 kilograms of lunar material to bring back to Earth.

Two stations in Australia were directly involved in bringing television from the Moon landing to the world: NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek tracking station, in the Australian Capital Territory, and the Parkes radio telescope, in New South Wales.