In 2019 it was fifty years since the first two humans landed on the Moon. This huge achievement was made possible by a team of more than 400,000 men and women here on Earth.
The UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) worked in partnership with The UK Space Agency to bring together and share the huge range of Moon events, festivals, activities and resources created as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings.
The Moon portal (no longer live)
The ASDC network of science centres and museums celebrated 50 years since the moon landings through hundreds of in-person and on-line events, exhibitions, shows, workshops and special parties open to the public.
ASDC supported activities across the network by providing a equipment and a practitioner handbook packed with information and hands-on demo ideas for children and families. The Moon Training Handbook is still available - Download it here.
The UK Space Agency supported a number of programmes, campaigns and celebrations across the UK in 2019.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, collected moon landing memories to capture how people across the UK responded to this giant leap for humanity in 1969. Hundreds of people who remembered watching the moment on TV in 1969 shared quotes and photos and fifty of the submissions were curated into a scrapbook where you can read stories from individuals inspired to pursue a life of space and science, a man who proposed to his partner and a woman in labour who delayed going to hospital to be sure the crew landed safely! Some of these memories went on display at an exhibition at the National Space Centre in Leicester as part of their ‘One Giant Leap’ summer programme of immersive events to celebrate the science, discoveries and people who made the Apollo 11 landings possible.