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Why the Moon landing arrived on television via a sheep paddock in Australia
The pictures of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon reached the world through radio dishes in Australia, because the Moon was below the horizon in the United States for most of the moonwalk. A 26-metre antenna near Canberra carried the first eight and a half minutes; a 64-metre telescope at Parkes, built for radio astronomy rather than spaceflight, carried the remaining two hours and twelve minutes.
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1960s · current lineage