The landing of spacecraft on the surface of the moon with Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 24, 1969 was the biggest story of the year. It influenced a generation of science loving youngsters all around the globe. Newspaper was the main source of information for most of the population of the world as Television was not widely available. Here are some of front pages of newspapers of that time covering the event. The main topic of school science fairs were models of space rockets, moon cities and lunar landers.
