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Topic: First newspaper(s) on the Moon
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-02-2005 10:14 AM
The Library of Congress announced today the acquisition of the papers of Allen H. Neuharth, a newspaper executive and editor who founded USA TODAY and FLORIDA TODAY and built Gannett Co. into the largest newspaper company in the United States. Neuharth also founded two nonprofit organizations: the Freedom Forum and Newseum.Among the "papers" acquired, according to a USA TODAY release, is: quote: A 1969 special edition of TODAY, a newspaper launched by Neuharth in Florida in 1966. This special edition was the first newspaper microfilmed and taken to the moon; astronaut Alan Shepard carried it on board Apollo XIV on Feb. 5, 1971.
I wonder if Neuharth is aware that Shepard also carried microfilmed versions of the Christian Science Monitor, Houston Post and, I believe, The New York Times on Apollo 14. |
Ken Havekotte Member Posts: 2913 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-02-2005 11:33 AM
Boy does that bring back "special newspaper" memories when Apollo 14 went to the moon. I have a few of those original Florida Today newspapers, same type issues, that Shepard took with him. Years later the Gannett Company produced a smaller or mini-version of the complete paper that Shepard flew, in which, I have a few as well. Now if I can only relocate them! The Freedom Seven Forum was also founded by Shepard along with Neuharth, if I recall correctly, as I attended their first official gathering. That was when America's first spaceman and 5th Apollo moonwalker actually signed for me and the Cape Air Force space museum our launch pad No. 5 flood lights, which are the only pad-related relics that the admiral actually hand signed and inscribed in a special way. | |
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