Editing Apollo 11 (section)

==== <span id="40th anniversary events"></span>40th anniversary ====
[[File:Apollo 11 Command Module in Hangar.jpg|thumb|''Columbia'' at the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar]]

On July 15, 2009, [[Life (magazine)|Life.com]] released a photo gallery of previously unpublished photos of the astronauts taken by ''Life'' photographer [[Ralph Morse]] prior to the Apollo 11 launch.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://life.time.com/history/photos-up-close-with-apollo-11/#1 |title=Up Close With Apollo 11 |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] |access-date=June 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521161407/https://life.time.com/history/photos-up-close-with-apollo-11/ |archive-date=May 21, 2013}}</ref> From July 16 to 24, 2009, NASA streamed the original mission audio on its website in real time 40 years to the minute after the events occurred.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html |title=Apollo 11 Onboard Audio |work=Apollo 40th Anniversary |publisher=NASA |access-date=June 14, 2013 |date=July 26, 2013 |archive-date=June 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603043816/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is in the process of restoring the video footage and has released a preview of key moments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html |title=Apollo 11 Partial Restoration HD Videos (Downloads) |editor-last=Garner |editor-first=Robert |publisher=NASA |access-date=June 14, 2013 |date=March 16, 2015 |archive-date=June 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628085558/http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2010, air-to-ground voice recordings and film footage shot in Mission Control during the Apollo 11 powered descent and landing was re-synchronized and released for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Sound restored to mission control film shot during Apollo 11 Moon landing |first=Christopher |last=Riley |author-link=Christopher Riley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jul/20/sound-apollo-11-moon-landing |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=July 20, 2010 |access-date=July 11, 2013 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032807/http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jul/20/sound-apollo-11-moon-landing |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] set up an [[Adobe Flash]] website that rebroadcasts the transmissions of Apollo 11 from launch to landing on the Moon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wechoosethemoon.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617230719/http://wechoosethemoon.org/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 17, 2009 |title=We Choose the Moon |publisher=[[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] |access-date=July 19, 2009}}</ref>

On July 20, 2009, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins met with President [[Barack Obama]] at the White House.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1422.html |title=Apollo 11 Crew Meets With President Obama |date=July 20, 2009 |work=Image of the Day Gallery |publisher=NASA |access-date=June 9, 2014 |archive-date=November 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111124903/http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1422.html |url-status=live }}</ref> "We expect that there is, as we speak, another generation of kids out there who are looking up at the sky and are going to be the next Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin", Obama said. "We want to make sure that NASA is going to be there for them when they want to take their journey."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21obama.html |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Jeff |last=Zeleny |title=Obama Hails Apollo Crew From a Lens of Childhood |date=July 21, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2017 |archive-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211230936/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21obama.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On August 7, 2009, an act of Congress awarded the three astronauts a [[Congressional Gold Medal]], the highest civilian award in the United States. The bill was sponsored by Florida Senator [[Bill Nelson (politician)|Bill Nelson]] and Florida Representative [[Alan Grayson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s951/text |title=Text of S.951 as Engrossed in Senate: New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal Act—U.S. Congress—OpenCongress |publisher=OpenCongress.org |access-date=June 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103063854/https://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s951/text |archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2245/text |title=Text of H.R.2245 as Enrolled Bill: New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal Act—U.S. Congress—OpenCongress |publisher=OpenCongress.org |access-date=June 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103064013/https://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2245/text |archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref>

A group of British scientists interviewed as part of the anniversary events reflected on the significance of the Moon landing:

{{blockquote|It was carried out in a technically brilliant way with risks taken&nbsp;... that would be inconceivable in the risk-averse world of today&nbsp;... The Apollo programme is arguably the greatest technical achievement of mankind to date&nbsp;... nothing since Apollo has come close [to] the excitement that was generated by those astronauts—Armstrong, Aldrin and the 10 others who followed them.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Moon landings: British scientists salute space heroes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5848707/Moon-landings-British-scientists-salute-space-heroes.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=July 17, 2009 |access-date=June 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308224145/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5848707/Moon-landings-British-scientists-salute-space-heroes.html |archive-date=March 8, 2013 |df=mdy}}</ref>}}