BREAKING NEWS 20 July 1969: Man successfully lands on the surface of the Moon

Apollo 11 archive coverage

At 2118 BST today a dream that humanity had held for millenia became reality when NASA's Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquillity after a dramatic and tense descent from command module Columbia

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