Thank You Wiley Post!

His pressure suit inspired the NASA guys!

It's from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World.  See you next week.

  

What's the Word from the Moon?

Well, here are some of them, as published in the July 20, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise:

I like the last one ... "President Kennedy, we made it!"

See you next Monday!

  

Dial Soap Presents a Moon Map!

The folded version of Dial Soap's Rand-McNally Moon Map may be seen on the right-hand side of the header art for this blog.  It came out in 1968, in the big publicity run-up to Apollo 11.

This is side 1.

And above is the other side.  Pretty spiffy, huh?

Following are close-up scans of selected parts.

The moonwalk depicted was, of course, in the future -- which is why we have a painting, not a photo, of the achievement!

See you next week.

   

It's a Round World After All!

From the January 13, 1969 Newsweek:

And this site purports to be the web presence of the Flat Earth Society, nowadays.

See you next Monday!