National Geographic - Early Space and Moon Articles

[Kiwi]

National Geographic, Volume 136, No. 6, December 1969, page 751
"Milestones on the way to the moon"

Soon after the landing on the moon last July the National Geographic Society received a letter from a member-family in Dallas, Texas. "I could not help but marvel," Wrote Bruce Topletz, a sophomore at Rice University, "that, as man jubilantly descended on the lunar surface, the March 1964 issue containing an article by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, ‘Footprints on the Moon,’ predicted to the last detail, in writing and excellent drawings, a landing achieved five years later."

In that memorable article Dr. Dryden—NASA’s Deputy Administrator and top scientist—made the unqualified prediction that "there will be footprints in the lunar dust." Dr. Dryden served your Society as a Trustee from 1951 until his death in 1965.

Members may find it helpful to have the following list of National Geographic articles on the space program and space-related subjects:

"Aviation Medicine on the Threshold of Space," by Allan C. Fisher, Jr., August 1955.

"New Light on the Changing Face of Mars," by E. C. Slipher, September 1955.

"Space Satellites, Tools of Earth Research," by Heinz Haber, April 1956.

"To 76,000 Feet by Strato-Lab Balloon," by Lt. Comdrs. Malcolm D. Ross, USNR, and M. Lee Lewis, USN, February 1957.

"Rockets Explore the Air Above Us," by Newman Bumstead, April 1957 *

"Reaching for the Moon," by Allan C. Fisher, Jr., February 1959.

"Cape Canaveral’s 6,000-mile Shooting Gallery," by Allan C. Fisher, Jr., October 1959.

"Exploring Tomorrow With the Space Agency," by Allan C. Fisher, Jr., July 1960.

"Our Earth as a Satellite Sees It," by W. G. Stroud, August 1960.

"The Long, Lonely Leap," by Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., USAF, December 1960.

"Countdown For Space," by Kenneth F. Weaver, May 1961.

"The Flight of Freedom 7," by Carmault B. Jackson, Jr., M.D., and "The Pilot’s Story," by Alan B. Shepard, Jr., September 1961.

"We Saw the World From the Edge of Space," by Comdr. Malcolm D. Ross, USNR, November 1961.*

"Tracking America’s Man in Orbit," by Kenneth F. Weaver, February 1962.

"Telephone a Star," by Rowe Findley, May 1962.

"John Glenn's Three Orbits in Friendship 7," by Robert B. Voas, June 1962.

"I Fly the X-15," by Joseph A. Walker, September 1962.*

"Robots to the Moon," by Frank Sartwell, October 1962.

"Mariner Scans a Lifeless Venus," by Frank Sartwell, May 1963.

"Footprints on the Moon," by Hugh L. Dryden, March 1964.*

"The Moon Close Up," by Eugene M. Shoemaker, November 1964.*

"The Making of an Astronaut," by Robert R. Gilruth, January 1965.

"America’s 6,000-Mile Walk in Space," September 1965.

"Space Rendezvous, Milestone on the Way to the Moon," by Kenneth F. Weaver, April 1966.

"Surveyor: Candid Camera on the Moon," by Homer E. Newell, October 1966. *

"The Earth From Orbit," by Paul D. Lowman, Jr., November 1966.

"Historic Color Portrait of Earth From Space," by Kenneth F. Weaver, November 1967.

"Mars: A New World to Explore," by Carl Sagan, December 1967.*

"That Orbed Maiden... the Moon," by Kenneth F. Weaver, "Awesome Views of the Forbidding Moonscape," and "How We Mapped the Moon," by David W. Cook, February 1969.

"A Most Fantastic Voyage," by Lt. Gen. Sam C. Phillips, USAF, and "And Now to Touch the Moon’s Forbidding Face," by Kenneth F. Weaver, May 1969.

Man’s Conquest of Space, a book by William R. Shelton, chronicles man’s yearning to reach the stars, 200 pages, 231 illustrations. $4.25 plus postage and handling; ask for later billing if desired.

* Indicates out of print but available in most public libraries. Issues after 1965: $1; 1956-64: $1.50, prior to 1956: $3. Order from the National Geographic Society, Dept. 60, Washington, D. C. 20036.

Hoax-believers must think it's rather odd how all those experts at National Geographic, who had been writing many articles about space and the Moon since 1955, didn't seem to think there was anything about Mercury, Gemini and Apollo that was faked. They seemed to believe it all happened pretty much as they recorded it.

[Kiwi]

A few later articles in my own collection:

"Man Walks on Another World" Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr and Michael Collins.   National Geographic, Vol. 136, No. 6, December 1969, pages 738-749

"Sounds of the Space Age, From Sputnik to Lunar Landing" [33-1/3 RPM Monaural Recording], narrated by Astronaut Frank Borman.  National Geographic, Vol. 136, No. 6, December 1969, page 750

"The Flight of Apollo 11: 'One Giant Leap for Mankind'", Kenneth F. Weaver.  National Geographic, Vol. 136, No. 6, December 1969, pages 752-787

"What the Moon Rocks Tell Us", Kenneth F. Weaver.  National Geographic, Vol. 136, No. 6, December 1969, pages 788-791

"Next Steps in Space ", Dr Thomas O. Paine.  National Geographic, Vol. 136, No. 6, December 1969, pages 792-797

"The Climb Up Cone Crater" [Apollo 14], Alice J. Hall.  National Geographic, Vol. 140, No. 1, July 1971, pages 136-148

"History Written in Rock" [Apollo 15 -- Photos of Mount Hadley].  National Geographic, Vol. 141, No. 2, February 1972, pages 230-232

"To the Mountains of the Moon" [Apollo 15], Kenneth F. Weaver.  National Geographic, Vol. 141, No. 2, February 1972, pages 233-265

"What is it Like to Walk on the Moon?" [Apollo 15], David R. Scott.  National Geographic, Vol. 144, No. 3, September 1973, pages 326-329

"Apollo 16 Brings us Visions from Space".  National Geographic, Vol. 142, No. 6, December 1972, pages 856-865

"Exploring Taurus-Littrow" [Apollo 17], Harrison H. Schmitt.  National Geographic, Vol. 144, No. 3, September 1973, pages 290-307

"Have We Solved the Mysteries of the Moon?", Kenneth F. Weaver.  National Geographic, Vol. 144, No. 3, September 1973, pages 308-325

[onebigmonkey]

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