But Is It Expeditious?

That's a joking riff on the Prairie Home Companion's Powder Milk Biscuits:  "They're Tasty and expeditious."  This article is from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

However, their diet did NOT contain "Space Food Sticks."  While I bought some about five years ago (and ate them all), one blogger reports they've been discontinued.

Such as progress, me hearties!  See you next Monday.

  

I Call This One "Uncle Medals"

Because these two squibs ran one above the other in the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

No word on whether any of those previous gold medals have since turned up in Moscow pawn shops.  See you next Monday!

  

If You're in the World, You Can See It!

That was the promise of this snippet in the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World.  

Of course, folks nowadays would turn up their noses at such grainy footage in black and white with visual and audio dropouts.  

And folks a hundred years from now would talk with similar disdain about the Trendies' iGotchas and Dogmented Reality stuff.  Such is Progress!  See you next Monday!.

  

That's a Rich One!

From the August 4, 1969 Newsweek, here's a one-pager from scientist Robert Jastrow about how he hoped the world would derive benefits from Apollo research.

He was right about some of this.  Here's a 2022 article covering the topic.  Another survey says, "Econometric studies estimate that Apollo returned five to seven dollars to the United States' economy for every dollar invested in it." source

So, there are some upsides to learning things.  Students, take note!

  

Apollo 8 Couldn't Have Happened Without Him!

That is, without the father of  Astronaut William Anders, the journey of Apollo 8 woulda been really different!.  Read all about it in this clipping from the August 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

See you again right here next Monday, fellow Lunians!

  

Prometheus and a Carnival

That's the headline on the last page of this excerpt from Time's July 25, 1969 issue.

Do you recall when magazines used special paper, which was bound into specific parts of the magazine -- all because color printing took special methods?

The title of this final page, as I noted above, is a cute summary of the both the sideshow and the science-aspirational aspects of the whole Moon Shot deal.

See you next week!

  

Don't Step in the Moonglow

Of course, in this case "moonglow" is reporterese for "being in the spotlight" of public notice.

This is from the July 20, 1969 Tulsa World.

See you next week, fellow moon-baskers!

  

Safe Return Not Guaranteed

Well, you landed on the Moon. But will you get back home?  That was the worry on Earth, on July 21, 1969, as evinced in this article from the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.

And I hope you'll safely return here next Monday for another clipping!

  

Sharing the Trouble

You've gotta have a certain attitude or mindset for a vocation like the military, race-car driver, parachutist, or astronaut (which sort of combines all-of-the-above!). This is from the November 22, 1969 Tulsa World.

To me it ain't a "normal" person who can survey the disaster and take corrective action, as here and the next Apollo Mission.  In some ways, to cope with such messes you gotta be supranormal.

See you next week!

  

Watch Out for Them Sooners

 This is from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

Thanks to them and many more Okies since then!

  

TIME's About It!

(to reverse the title of the fun comedy It's About Time.)

These pages are from the July 25, 1969 issue of Time.  The color-insert pages and a sidebar will be featured another day.

If only we could take a similar "giant leap" towards tolerance and common cooperation today!  I'll try and do my part.  See you next Monday.

  

What's in the Box?

Well, it waren't a Jack-in-the-Box!

Them thar is Moon Rocks!  As narrated in the August 4, 1969 issue of Newsweek.

See you next Monday.  

 

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!