“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… Continue reading ‘To the Moon!’
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