Lh09 - First Man On The Moon, Art Poster Review

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(More customer reviews)On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT (02:56 GMT), American astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, 240,000 miles from Earth. As he put his left foot down first Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind." Another astronaut, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, watched from inside the lunar module and had spoken the first words of man on the Moon: "Tranquility base. The Eagle has landed." It is estimated that 125 million people in the United States and at least 700 million around the world watched parts of the 31-hour coverage of the first moon-landing mission, making it the biggest television audience ever.
Aldrin joined him a few minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and spoke with President Richard M. Nixon via Houston. Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon--July 1969 A.D.--We came in peace for all mankind." Armstrong and Aldrin spent a total of 21 hours on the moon, two-and-a-half of which were spent outside the lunar landing module. When they returned to Earth on July 24 the three astronauts spent the next 21 days in quarantine to see if they had picked up any dangerous alien organisms.
This 16 x 12 inch art poster is the front page of the "London Herald" for Monday, July 21, 1969. The headline "FIRST MAN ON THE MOON" accompanies a photograph of an astronaut by the American flag (you can make out the rod that is keeping the flag "flying") and Armstrong's historic first words (I remember an article where famous people were asked what they thought the first words ever spoken on the moon should be and I believe it was Bob Hope you suggested "Coca-Cola"). In addition to the description of historic event the front page also contains an ad for women's clothing (oh, those wacky Brits). It might seem strange to have a foreign newspaper on the wall of an American history classroom, but teachers have to take what they can get in this regard.
Today this poster has importance because as we look back on the historic achievement it seems strange that it was all down hill from there. Landing on the Moon marked the pinnacle of the Space Race and after the great accomplishment American investment in the space program declined. Another ten astronauts walked on the moon and the final manned lunar landing, Apollo 17, was completed in December 1972. On January 14, 2004 President George W. Bush said he wanted to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars. Critics charged the plan lacked specifics and the costs could not be easily estimated and the White House has not talked about space exploration since that declaration. Bush's words were compared to those spoken by President John F. Kennedy to a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961, when he told the world: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
But going to the Moon did not mark the start of the realization of all of the imaginative vistas of science fiction films. We all assumed the Moon was a stepping stone to other planets, but such aspirations have remained the province of speculative fiction. Still, it is difficult for me not to look at a photograph of Armstrong standing on the moon and not recall the words of President John F. Kennedy on July 12, 1956 at Rice University: "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

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