We Have Achieved Transmission

... But it wasn't easy, according to this article in the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

The final paragraph compares the "brilliant, high-resolution" broadcasts from Apollo 11 to the "jerky, snowy" video provided by Apollo 7.  Don't forget that the video footage we see from 1969, which makes some roll their eyes in disgust at its low-fi, was a high achievement for its time.  Who knows in what ways future generations will look down their noses on this year's 4K, stereo-in-your-nose, smell-eriffic tech?

See you Monday, we've only a few posts left before running out!

  

Double-Timing It

This came from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World.

Somebody can tell me if this prognostication ever took place.  Did Apollo 12 really spend twice the time on the Moon than 11 did?

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Reporting In

This article from the August 12, 1969 Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise tells you the straight poop about the Moon shot, straight from the astronauts' mouths:

Of course, the PRIVATE report, about the green cheese and the Moon Maidens, is still under lock and key.

See you next Monday!

In 1969 Dollars!

In this article from the July 21, 1969 Tulsa World, we learn all about the disposable economy.

Just so ya know, a million bucks of trash in 1969 would be worth $7,974,114.44 today.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!