2019-P Australia $1 - Moon Landing 50th Anniversary - BU (1oz Silver)
- Country: Australia
- Queen: Elizabeth II (1952-Date)
- Type: Non-Circulating Coin
- Years: 2019
- Mint: Perth Mint - Australia
- Denomination: 1 AUD
- Currency: Australian Dollar (1966-Date)
- Composition: .9999 Silver
- Diameter: 40.6mm
- Weight: 31.1g
- Edge: Reeded
- Mintage: 50,000
- Obverse: 6th crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem and the Victorian Coronation Necklace
- Reverse: Representation of the Lunar Module Eagle landing on the Moon behind a large footprint on the Moon's surface
- Commemorative Issue: 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing 1969-2019
The successful landing of United States spacecraft Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle on the Moon was watched by more than half a billion people in 1969. Humanity collectively held its breath as astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface, proclaiming, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. The pulse of humanity rose as Apollo 11 was launched on 16 July 1969. An estimated 600 million people across the world watched on TV – thanks in part to Australia’s CSIRO Parkes radio telescope and NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra – as it made its successful flight to the Moon.
The 1969 achievement of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, paved the way for continued development of advanced technology to explore Earth, the Moon, other planets and the distant reaches of space.
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