Moon Landings

The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – Newsweek, 1969

Fifty four years later, it is hard to miss Apollo 8's seismic impact. It capped an incredible year of news which were…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – The Telegraph Magazine

The first to produce Apollo 8 special issues in color were the major newspapers. The New York Times had Earthrise on its…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – Time Magazine, 1969

A week afer Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - landed safely in the Pacific…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – The Times, 1969

Apollo 8 capped an incredible year of news which were not always great: two political assassinations in the US, the…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – National Geographic, 1969

The articles on Apollo 8 appeared in National Geographic several months after the missions but the magazine produced an in-depth story.

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Lunar Orbiters – National Geographic, 1969

The Lunar Orbiters were five uncrewed missions launched between 1966 and 1967, to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Surveyor – National Geographic, 1966

From June 1966 through January 1968, NASA sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon as part of…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 8 – Look Magazine, 1969

Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times and the…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Apollo 1 – Life Magazine, 1967

On January 27, 1967, a fire broke out in the command module during a pre-flight test at Cape Kennedy. All…

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The Road to the Moon Landings – Gemini X – Life Magazine, 1966

In July 18, 1966, Gemini X went up. Its purpose was to test out a few things for the future…

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