Moon Landing in the Papers, 54 Years Later

Fifty four years ago today, these newspaper had news of yesterday's Apollo 11 landing. 

Jeff Parker has shared his copy of the Florida newspaper Florida Today on his Facebook page. (Jeff Parker grew up in Satellite Beach, FL, and together with cartoonist Steve Kelley, co-creates the two-time NCS Award winning daily comic strip, "Dustin." For 21 years he was Florida Today's editorial cartoonist.) Typically, the landing was not just front page news. Apollo 11 saturated a lot of the paper. 

 

Of course, then there's The Onion's parody front page, which also, in its own way, captures the feeling. 

 

For me, I was excited since my Dad was excited. He bought a Revell model kit of the Saturn V rocket and we put it together beforehand, using that now-banned toxic fumed airplane glue. I was primed in how the mission was supposed to go. (Blast off, land on moon, then splashdown back on Earth.) I knew the names of the astronauts. We all did. It was big news! 

Here's five hours of CBS News coverage of the landing.