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Moon landings

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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Apollo 11 photographs, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/952
Scope and Contents

A presentation album containing five 355mm x 270mm colour photographs of the Apollo 11 moon-landing of 21 July 1969 preceded by a introduction containing captions.

Dates: 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Newspaper cuttings on the RGO and astronomy, 1922 - 1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190
Scope and Contents A set of press cuttings on the subjects of astronomy, the RGO, its move to Herstmonceux Castle and later to Cambridge, and its subsequent closure. Significant cuttings include coverage of the Moon landings (1968), the Space Race, the Apollo 13 disaster (1970), Halley's Comet (1986), images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, Comet Shoemaker-Levi’s collision with Jupiter (1994), Comet Hale-Bopp (1997), and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.Early coverage is sporadic, with cuttings...
Dates: 1922 - 1998
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Newspaper from 1977 & two cuttings from 1982, 1977-05-11 - 1982-05-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190/6
Scope and Contents

Copy of 'The Times' (11 May 1977) with reprinted news features from the 1961 Gagarin earth orbit and 1969 Moon landings (page 15). Also (in outsized Melinex sheet) two 1982 cuttings on the addition of an extra second in June and on RGO Herstmonceux.

Dates: 1977-05-11 - 1982-05-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Press cuttings from 1969, 1969-04 - 1969-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190/3
Scope and Contents

Includes cuttings on the space race, Luna 15, Apollo 10, Apollo 11 and the Moon landings.

Dates: 1969-04 - 1969-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).