That Was the Week That Was, July 25, 1969

People were high on the moon all week, not just for the one small step. Time magazine was still 'timely' with a cover date of July 25. But it also became a 'time' capsule of other icons of that dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Besides the cover and the moon men, I've pulled a few pages relating to us people on earth, just to show the context of the 'time'.

A really nice cover by Louis Glanzman, his 30th for Time, showing Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon . . .

' The Moon'—a catchy catch-phrase . . .

The Moon Men were photogenic and brave. The neat thing is that they weren't cocky . . .

It was a wonderful event for cameras, but it was cool that Robert McCall, and other artists for other media, were on hand . . .

In hindsight we can laugh that there was concern about bringing back 'moon bugs', but if they hadn't done the quarantine and there really were cosmic pathogens and we all died horrible blood-spitting deaths . . . wouldn't we have been pissed?

A cool Time diagram, adapted from Life . . .

Keep scrolling down to see about life on Earth . . .