Set of Tumblers Commemorating the First Moon Landing, circa 1969
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Artifact Overview
In the 1960s and 1970s, gas stations and other types of convenience stores often gave away promotional glasses featuring a wide array of popular subjects of the day. At the height of the Apollo space program, Marathon gas stations offered a series of glasses featuring the Apollo 11, 12, 13, and 14 missions, including these Apollo 11 promotional drinking glasses.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Tumbler (Drinking glass)
Date Made
circa 1969
Subject Date
20 July 1969
Creators
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2017.134.7
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Jan Hiatt.
Material
Glass (Material)
Color
Blue
Red
White (Color)
Colorless
Dimensions
Height: 4.125 in
Diameter: 2.75 in
Inscriptions
around sides of tumblers:
MAN ON THE MOON / JULY 20, 1969 / USA / EAGLE "Tranquility Base" / NEIL A. ARMSTRONG / EDWIN E. ALDRIN, JR. / MICHAEL COLLINS / APOLLO 11
on bottom of three tumblers:
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Set"One Giant Leap for Mankind": Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing
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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.