Musicblob normally doesn’t host audio files. This is the first exception and we are not talking of a music file but a spoken word track about 3 minutes long.

It is the historical recording of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Adrin and Michael Collins’s Moon landng: the Apollo 11 mission. It was July 20, 1969: 40 years ago.

Bits like “The Eagle has landed” and “That’s one small step for a man… One giant leap for mankind” these days can be easily found as mp3s. In the peer-to-peer underground and other places. This is public domain material, as most of the production of NASA and other US government agencies.

Fragments of these recordings have been sampled in many occasions: the best example is “Apollo XI” by OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), from the album “Sugar Tax” (1991) subsequently remixed in “big beat” style, as shown in “The OMD Singles” collection, released in 2003.

You can find the mp3 format recording here.

Photo: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July, 1969. NASA.This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that “NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted”.