Did the Soviet Union show the Apollo 11 moon landing live on TV or did they black it out?

Peche

Apparently it wasn't shown on Soviet television, but was referred to briefly in the newspaper. See paragraph #3 under "The Giant Leap": http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/russia_moon_wg.html Nov 23 09, 2:46 AM

star_gazer

Thanks Peche! When the day came that Neil Armstrong was ready to step out of the lunar module Eagle and make his historic walk on the moon, top Soviet scientists and cosmonauts gathered to view the event via a bootleg cable hook-up from Europe. "We were delighted as engineers as they had done wonderful work," said Chertok, deputy for 20 years to Sergei Korolyov, the father of the Soviet rocket program. "But on the other hand we felt disappointment. Why them and not us? It was bitter." Soviet television did not broadcast live images of Armstrong on the moon and Soviet daily Pravda carried only a brief mention of the historic walk on the front page. Inside, after extensive coverage of 25 years of Polish socialism, the paper offered another article and a fuzzy photo taken from a television image of Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. http://www.russiajournal.com/node/434 Nov 23 09, 6:03 AM