Foxtel marks 50 years since first moon walk with cosmic slate
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 04 July 2019

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and man’s first steps on the moon this month, with a slate of factual programming.

Throughout July and streaming On Demand, Foxtel channels History, Discovery, Discovery Science, National Geographic and BBC Knowledge will, the operator said: “pay tribute to to then men and women who turned science fiction into science fact in that iconic moment when the phrase ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,’ was uttered.”

Foxtel Movies will also honour one of man’s greatest space achievements with a 50th anniversary moon landing movie event featuring First Man, Gravity, Moon, Space Cowboys, Geostorm, The Martian, Europa Report, Sunshine, Apollo 13, Interstellar, The Right Stuff (1983), 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Solaris (2002). Foxtel Movies subscribers can stream the collection of space exploration movies on FoxFlicks or watch them back to back on Foxtel Movies More over the weekend beginning Saturday 20 July.

History will air, for the first time in Australia, Apollo’s Moon Shot; Battle for the Moon: From Sputnik to Apollo; Moon Landing: World's Greatest Hoax?; and Moon Landing: The Lost Tapes. National Geographic will launch its programming event with the two-hour feature documentary Apollo: Mission to the Moon on 15 July with other titles through the week, including The Armstrong Tapes and Apollo 8: The Mission that Changed the World.

Discovery Science will premiere Apollo: The Forgotten Films (simulcast on Discovery), Return to the Moon: Seconds to Arrival, and Confessions From Space. Also, in the line-up is the premiere series, Truth Behind The Moon Landing, Living Universe and the returning premiere seasons of NASA’s Unexplained Files, UFO’s The Lost Evidence, Strip The Cosmos and How The Universe Works.

BBC Knowledge titles Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes? plus two Professor Brian Cox series - Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe - will also air as part of Foxtel’s cosmic celebration.