Apollo 11

Television coverage of the first Moon landing, July 1969 Around 16 million people in Britain watched the landing, and the BBC and ITV stayed on air through the night to cover it, the country's first all-night television. The grainy black-and-white pictures of the first steps on the lunar surface are slow and quiet, which suits a calm afternoon. Ask whether they stayed up for it or were woken to see it, and who was in the room.