How Accurate Do YOU Think?

This article is from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World.

Some of this info may or may not have been "borrowed" from a similar article published in May 1969 in Look magazine, posted here a year ago.

See you next Monday!

  

Remember, It Isn't Possible

At least that's what folks said awhile ago.

... As cited in this article from the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World.  What do you think?

  

A Video Link, That Is

From the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World:

In 1969, this kind of link was impressive.  See you next week!

  

Inflation Strikes Again!

A blind legacy for the First Man on the Moon shrinks in the wash!

As you can see, this notice is from the August 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

Five seconds of interweb search tells us that 100,000 francs nowadays is about $106,000.  And $106,000 in 1891 is worth $3,304,823.74 today.

Not bad.  See you next week.

  

Blaming Jules Verne

If anybody in the past wrote about a trip to the Moon, of course it was newsworthy in the summer of 1969. This is a feature from the May 25, 1969 issue of Look.

It's up to you to decide if Verne was prescient or playing the odds.  He did get the Florida part right!  See ya next Monday.

  

If It's a Dwarf, It May Be a Hoax!

These two articles ran side-by-side in the edition of Bartlesville's Examiner-Enterprise for Sunday, July 20, 1969.

I wonder how the New Church took the news about the absence of Moon Dwarfs.  Their official site is here.

Regarding the second article, aren't you likewise bemused that anybody would fall for the idea of close-up photos of the Moon, taken from Earth?  Surely if you were educated enough to read a newspaper, you knew that the technology of your day wasn't quite that advanced?

Ponder such musings while you breathlessly await next Monday's post!  See you then.

  

Our Journey Begins!

I was twelve years old in July 1969.  Like most American kids, I was surrounded by the impetus of our nation's race into space.  And I was thrilled that mankind's journey to the Moon would happen in my lifetime!

I assembled a scrapbook.

And my (still) unironic self created a heroic splash page!

Besides the dozens of articles glued into its construction-paper pages, I have another couple of dozen newspaper clippings just TOO BIG to cut-and-paste into the scrapbook.  Most of my sources were the Examiner-Enterprise of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the Tulsa World.

We've also got some multi-page excerpts from newsmagazines like Time, Newsweek, and Life.

Not everything is limited to Apollo.  There'll be some considerations of space shuttles and other planets, too -- all as covered by the news outlets of the time.

With over 100 images to share, I promise to make one new post every Monday, until I run out!  (That's MOON-DAY for us Baby Boomers!)  These posts will not be made in chronological sequence.

Thanks to the immortality of the interwebs, folks a zillion Moon-Days from now will be able to appreciate the awe, the grandeur, and sometime silliness of America's dash to the Moon ... and a few steps beyond.

Like the human condition, there's human interest, science, and tomfoolery in these here images.  That's humanity for ya!

See you next Moon-Day.