On July 16th, 2019, which was the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, CBS rebroadcast the entire original four-hour news broadcast of Walter Cronkite as he covered the launch in real time. Running from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (CDT), the timing of the rebroadcast was accurate down to the second, and included all the television commercials as well (for sponsors Western Electric, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and Maxim freeze-dried coffee), which were very few in number. As described by Cronkite some twenty minutes after the launch, during the last few seconds of ignition every news teletype machine from AP, UPI, Reuters, and other non-Soviet news agencies fell completely silent, as the operators had paused to watch the launch on television. For the most part, the world fell silent for the first time in its history because of a single event. He also reported that Soviet television did not cover the launch and it did not receive detailed coverage by the Soviet press.

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