Though nostalgia is taking hold 50 years after Apollo 11, reader letters from July 1969 portray a country that might feel very familiar to us today.
, many wistful Americans are surely experiencing peak nostalgia, longing for a time when millions of people could put aside their differences and delight in the nation’s scientific ingenuity and spirit of exploration.
The letters to the editor below were published in the Los Angeles Times in the days after the Apollo 11 moon landing. They’re from readers who express concerns on a wide range of topics that may ring familiar to us half a century later.Advertisement “The people who put this project together were simply stupid not to include a colored person on the trip.“The inclusion of a colored person would have made the moon flight far more significant to the majority people of the world.
“The incredible voyage; it outdid everything that the blind poet Homer could have dreamed of. A victory for Galileo and Da Vinci, and thoughtful Copernicus — what would he think? Indeed, this was truly the cumulative accomplishment of all men.
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