Revisiting The New York Times' 'Man on Moon' Coverage

On this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. The above is The New York Times’ front page from that day. Here’s a snippet from the article that ran 42 years ago:

Men have landed and walked on the moon.

Two Americans, astronauts of Apollo 11, steered their fragile four-legged lunar module safely and smoothly to the historic landing yesterday at 4:17:40 P.M., Eastern daylight time.

Neil A. Armstrong, the 38-year-old civilian commander, radioed to earth and the mission control room here:

‘Houston, Tranquility Base here.