Moon Watch

It's not something for your wrist ...

I do like the Columbus-Magellan comment.

It's from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.  See you next Monday!

  

Designer Clothes Indeed

As you might imagine, space duds cost a pretty penny.

While reading this article from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World, remember that these were 1969 dollars!  According to the American Institute for Economic Research, one of those $30,000 spacesuits would cost $239,223.43 in 2022!

See you next Monday.

  

Hard to Guard!

 After tales of Space Horror like 1968's The Green Slime and 1958's It! The Terror from Beyond Space, and considering the smallpox plague on Amerindians, it was only prudent to isolate astronauts after their return from the Great Beyond.

Please join me in being thankful that there were no 22-day space viruses!

  

This is from the July 25, 1969 issue of Time.  See you next week!

  

More Hope, Less Skepticism Please!

From the July 25, 1969 TIME mag:

And we're still waiting for that whole "Mars and Beyond" thing!

  

TV in Review and News Quotes

This clipping is from the July 21, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.

"A positive tonic in negative times," wrote Dick Du Brow.  We need such things now, too, dontcha think?  See you next Monday!

  

Say Hello to "aJn"

You can tell that "old" newspapers' texts were typed by humans because of simple little transpositions as found in the caption of the photo below.

This happy image is from the July 18, 1969 Tulsa World.  See you next week -- I'll try to be on time!

  

Not to Worry

As we can read in this article from the July 20, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, we ding-dang humans can't help but worry.

I think it would be neat to live in "Space Headquarters USA," don't you?  See you Monday!

  

It Was Russian Eyes Before Chinese Ones

Keeping in mind the lackadaisical response to last week's Chinese spy balloon which drifted leisurely across America, all the while snapping pics and hoovering phone-broadcast traffic, which were doubtless immediately beamed home to Peking ...

The above article narrates intentional braggartry on our part, to let the Russkies admire good ol' American know-how.

This clipping is from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World.  See you next Monday!

  

Feel Free to Shout

This article from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World shows what I'm talkin' about.

Now, I didn't shout ... but I did go outside and point at the Moon and say with quiet satisfaction, "We got you."  I was 12 at the time.

  See you next Monday.

   

Getcher Timetable Right Hyar

From the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World, this was how things were supposed to go for Apollo 11.

Are there any historians out there to tell us if everything went exactly on time?  Until such notification, come back next week for a brand-new something.

  

Trust Your Instincts?

This rumination on space, Earth, and her peoples is from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

See you next week, fellow terranauts!

  

... And ... They're Back!

Back from the Moon, that is!

This is coverage from the August 4, 1969 Newsweek.

  

Shame-Faced Blogger

That's because it appears I failed you, fellow space cadets, by neglecting to post last Monday.

Above is an article from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World to make up the deficit.  And below is something for this week:

The above is from the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World.  Oo-la-oui!

See you next Monday, or else!

  

Shame-Faced Trekkies

I mean, REALLY!

They should be ashamed!

This squib is from the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World.

  

Acclaimed They Should Be!

It's from the August 12, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.

See you next week.

  

You Too Can Stamp the Moon!

Or something like that.

It's from the July 20, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.  It's only appropriate that a stamp commemorating a Moon shot is for Air Mail, eh?

Talk to you next week!

  

Where's the Fiddle?

This is from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

Regarding the title of this post, I ask that because every time I think of the phrase "complacency bad," I hear it in Boris Karloff's voice as the Frankenstein Monster.

"Complacency BAD!  Drink GOOD!"  And then the blind hermit plays his fiddle.

See you next Monday.

  

A Distant View

As narrated in this article from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World, three astronauts surveyed the Moon from on high.

See you next Monday.

  

Tense, Ecstatic, and a Few More Adjectives

But not all of them were printable.

You know that they knew their lives would be intrusively examined before and after Apollo, but don't you bet there were plenty of times when the "space families" wished they could just let out with a burp or a cuss word, unwatched?

This article is from the July 22, 1969 Tulsa World.

  

Priorities and Spin-Offs

That's what these pages from Time's August 1, 1969 issue discuss.

See you next Monday, fellow splashers.