It was just 47 days after Star Trek was cancelled when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. The timing also seems intentional today. Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto talk about the first moon landing and its impact on the original series on this episode of 70s Trek. As American astronauts walked on the moon in the years between 1969 and 1972, Star Trek entered syndication. Suddenly, what seemed far-fetched in the 1960s, was becoming real in the 1970s. Apollo 11 helped people realize that space exploration was real. Star Trek seemed much more possible to people than it did when the series first aired.
