The Irish angle: The Irish Times, July 21st, 1869, p 8 The inside of the edition featured a piece on space food – “good, but not like home!” – and a tangential Irish angle - astronaut Michael Collins’s wife Patricia was the daughter of a Mayo man. It was written after the landing, but before Armstrong actually set foot on the surface.
The leader, simply titled “Moon”, said the “oldest and wildest dream of the human race has been realised”. Mapping the Moon mission: July 21st, 1969Īrmstrong left the lander just after 3.56am (Irish time), making the extensive coverage in that morning’s paper something of a marvel in itself. Fintan O’Toole: They went to the moon we discovered the Earth.Does the moon landing really matter any more?.Moon landing was almost comically low-tech – by today’s standards.
First man on the moon newspaper update#
The technical aspects of the mission – the “Flawless flight of the Eagle” – were covered on the same page, with an update on the unmanned spacecraft Luna-15 – the Soviet horse in the moon race – which was orbiting the moon. It’s different but it’s very pretty out here.” “It’s like much of the high desert of the United States. “It’s a very soft surface, but here and there where I poke with the sample collector I run into a very hard surface,” said Armstrong, describing the “stark beauty” surrounding him on his first moonwalk (and answering a four-year-old question for Irish Times readers). The front page of The Irish Times, July 21st, 1969
The headline read: “Two men walk on the Moon.” On July 21st, 1969, The Irish Times’s front page carried a photograph from the surface alongside head shots of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Another, Dr Gerard Kuiper, who headed a team that studied the photographs, said the material would be frothy and “may hide many treacherous things on the moon’s surface”. One suggested the terrain had the texture of crunchy snow. ‘Mystery unsolved by Moon pictures’ - The Irish Times front page, February 22nd, 1965Įxperts theorised. The story sits beneath an aerial view of the lunar surface, and to the left of the day’s lead a report about the assassination, the day before, of US civil rights activist Malcolm X. “The pictures taken by America’s Ranger 8 spacecraft have left open the big question – is it safe to put a man on the moon?” reads the report. But in 1965 the lunar terrain was a real concern.
We’ve seen the pictures and heard Neil Armstrong’s crackled one-liner, issued as he left the lunar module on the 21st. On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing – July 20th, 1969 – the question seems absurd. It was Monday, February 22nd, 1965, and a headline on the front page of The Irish Times asked a vital question about the moon: will man sink into the surface?
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