Time Magazine for July 25, 1969, "Man on the Moon"
THF230050 / Time Magazine for July 25, 1969, "Man on the Moon" / redacted
01
Artifact Overview
This milestone in space exploration began with President John F. Kennedy's request to increase funding for the U.S. space program on May 25 1961, "Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs." He stated, "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
Artifact Details
Artifact
Magazine (Periodical)
Date Made
25 July 1969
Subject Date
25 July 1969
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Original cover artwork by artist Louis Glanzman. Published by Time Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2013.50.17
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 / MAN ON THE MOON
Keywords |
|---|
02
Related Content
Set"One Giant Leap for Mankind": Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing
- 18 Artifacts
Three weeks after astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, President Kennedy laid out a bold vision that America should commit itself to landing a man on the moon "before the decade is out." Many missions followed until, on July 20, 1969--just six months before the end of the decade--American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. became the first humans to set foot on the moon.
SetJFK Remembered: Space Program
- 28 Artifacts
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.