Daily Mirror 22 July 1969
Daily Mirror 22 July 1969
Original copy of the Daily Mirror newspaper from 22 July 1969, two days after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The story of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ascending from the surface of the Moon in the Lunar Module and docking with the Command Module in orbit takes the front page with the headline, “Link-up! They're together Again.”The third crew member of Apollo 11, Michael Collins, remained in lunar orbit alone for more than 21 hours while the other two completed the historic landing. He would have been the sole survivor if something had gone wrong with the Lunar Module, which had never been fired on the lunar surface before. President Nixon even had a speech prepared in case of such an eventuality. Thankfully the Lunar Module performed faultlessly, and the crew were reunited.
The article finishes with the betting firm William Hill offering these odds for humans beings landing alive on Mars:
1000-1 before 20 July 1972
500-1 before 20 July 1974
100-1 before 20 July 1976
evens before 20 July 1979
More information
Object number
2007-1
Location
Off-site Storage
Has this object been into space?
No
Dimension - Dimension, Value, Measurement unit
Length: 38cm
Width: 30cm
Material
Paper
Ink
Object Production Date
25/07/1969
Object Production Organisation
Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd.
On Display Status
Not on display
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