With Neil Armstrong’s passing this week, this video has been making the rounds on the internet. It is an un-released, rather ‘spacey’ and rare Floyd track that Pink Floyd played live on BBC during the famous Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.

David Gilmour:

It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23. The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead — it’s a nice, atmospheric, spacey 12-bar blues.

Another description:

A instrumental piece used for a tv-programme on the evening of the first moonlanding July 20, 1969. The programme was a used by the BBC in between the coverage of the actual moonlanding -and was called ‘But what if it’s made of green cheese’. The theme was the first verse and the coda, with various actors reading quotes and poetry about the moon over. The rest of the programme was information, discussions and sketches. Later in the show, Moonhead was performed uninterrupted. The music can be heard on the bootlegs ‘With/Without’ and ‘Wavelenghts’. The song has also been known as ‘Trip On Mars’.

The music in this video is from the 1969 BBC broadcast – the footage in this fan-made video appears to be from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, not from Apollo 11.