“It is quite likely that this Professor Goddard couldn’t hit a barn door with a charge from a shotgun at a distance of fifty yards, yet he presumes to hit the moon with a rocket sent from the earth.”
- “Audacity of Ignorance,” Carbonate Chronicle, October 24, 1921
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
- Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969
Each month, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection brings you a Featured Topic, a collection of articles culled from the over 500,000 pages in the Collection. This July marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing……when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins (in orbit above) accomplished what many thought impossible. Celebrate by reading early stories about the moon and prototype rockets to the moon in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
Just visit http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/, select your type of internet connection, and click on Featured Topics in the upper right-hand corner. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions on future Featured Topics!
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