20th July 1969

Apollo 11 broadcasts from the moon.
Perhaps the most famous of all broadcasts was that of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon at 10:56 PM EDT, July 20, 1969.  Armstrong stepping from the Eagle lander onto the Moon's dusty surface was recorded by a television camera, whose live signal was fed back to NASA Mission Control in Houston. The broadcast from the moon also contains one of the most famous misstatements in history: Armstrong had planned to say  "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," but forgot the "a" at the last second.