We landed on the moon 46 years ago! Here's how 46 newspapers covered it

July 20 marks the 46th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission successfully landing on the moon. To celebrate the occasion, we collected 46 front pages from newspapers—both big and small—the world over from that momentous time.

1. New York Times

2. The Denver Post

3. Pravda

Rough translation, via:

“The first lunar expedition
interview with academician A.P. Vinogradov

How do you rate the achievement of “Apollo 11” crew? What are the new problems they had to solve compared to previous manned flights to the Moon?

We highly appreciate the flight of the American spaceship “Apollo-11”, in which two people – Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin first set foot on the lunar surface. Spaceship and its many systems withstood a serious challenge. One can do nothing but admire the courage and self-possession of cosmonauts, who bravely met the unknown. They first landed on the surface of our natural satellite in the moon unit. New challenges are no less complex – ascent from Moon surface and rendezvous with orbiting spaceship

I take this opportunity to congratulate the astronauts with outstanding success and wish them a safe return to Earth.”

4. The Boston Globe

5. The New York Daily-News

6. Chicago Tribune

7. The Washington Post

8. The Calgary Herald

9. Erie Morning News (PA)

10. The Philadelphia Inquirer

11. The Vancouver Sun (appropriately renamed that day)

12. The Auckland Star (one of several papers to publish that”Moonday”)

13. The Daily Telegraph

14. The Evening Standard

15. San Francisco Chronicle

16. Waterloo Daily Courier (IA)

17. Wapakoneta Daily News (Neil Armstrong’s hometown Ohio newspaper)

18. The San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune (IA)

19. Bedford Gazette (PA)

20. Buffalo Evening News

21. Los Angeles Times

22. Wisconsin State Journal

23. Daily Mirror

24. The Irish Press

25. The Guardian

26. Liverpool Daily Post

27. The Globe and Mail

28. Fort Myers News-Press

29. Houston Chronicle

30. The Saigon Post

31. Miami Herald

32. St. Petersburg Times

33. The Greymouth Evening Star (New Zealand)

34. The Patriot (Harrisburg, PA)

35. Fort Worth Star-Telegram

36. The Sun (Sydney)

37. Chicago Sun-Times

38. The Topeka Daily Capital

39. The Kansas City Times

40. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

41. Il Messaggero (Rome)

42. Detroit Free Press

43. The Cincinnati Enquirer

44. The Express & Star (Wolverhampton)

45. Daily Express

46. The Coventry Evening Telegraph

Bonus: The Onion (NSFW)

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