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My dad has always been a big consumer of news, and as an historian, he has also rountinely kept newspapers from big historic events. The Apollo 11 landing was no exception. In a box in my parents’ basement is a treasure trove of original papers from between July 17 and 24, 1969. This past weekend, I happened to visiting and came across the box, and given the fortuitous timing, I decided to take some pictures (they don’t have a scanner big enough, so apologies in advance) and take a look at how the launch and landing of Apollo 11 was covered in print as it happened.
The earliest of the newspapers my dad saved, showing the launch of Apollo 11.
Two headlines from the day before the landing. Unfortunately, my dad doesn’t have a copy of the New York Times from after the landing.
