Time Magazine for May 12, 1961, "Astronaut Shepard"
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Artifact Overview
President John F. Kennedy's vision to explore the "new frontier" of space was an overt Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union which launched the first man in space April 12, 1961. This cover story featured the first U.S astronaut in space, Alan Shepard. His Freedom 7 capsule reached 116.5 miles above the earth before splashing down on May 5, 1961.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Magazine (Periodical)
Date Made
12 May 1961
Subject Date
12 May 1961
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Original artwork on cover by Boris Chaliapin; published by Time, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2013.50.15
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Estate of Dr. and Mrs. Martin A. Glynn.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 11.25 in
Width: 8.375 in
Inscriptions
Text on front cover:
TIME / "WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT" / ASTRONAUT / SHEPARD
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The first pictorial lunchboxes, introduced in 1950, featured Hopalong Cassidy. Since then, generations of children have proudly sported pictorial images of their favorite interests on the sides of their school lunchboxes. The 1960s were an age of space exploration, beginning with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 through the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969.