On July 20, 1969, the world watched Apollo 11 land on the moon and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moons surface. We’re taking a look back at the top country music from 1969:

1. “A Boy Named Sue” – Johnny Cash

2. “Okie From Muskogee” – Merle Haggard

3. “Woman Of The World (Leave My World Alone)” – Loretta Lynn

4. “I Love Your More Today” – Conway Twitty

5. “(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again” – Charley Pride

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Interested in watching the NASA Special Programming for the 50th anniversary? Tune in on Friday, July 19 at 12 p.m. CT for NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future – Celebrating Apollo 50th as we Go Forward to the Moon. 

The live stream will broadcast from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where NASA will share “the story of how we got there, and how we’ll get there again, hearing directly from Apollo astronauts alongside current and future astronauts, scientists, engineers, and others sharing some untold stories, quirky facts, and personal reflections about journeying to the lunar surface”.

For more information on events NASA is hosting, click here.