
The Apollo 11 crew participated in a number of press conferences before the launch. Among the questions they fielded here with the international media was a difficult one about whether they agreed with the US Congressional mandate that only the US flag would be planted on the moon. In this clip Buzz Aldrin talks about the three things they will leave behind on the lunar surface.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.