56 years ago today, the first manned spaceflight to the Moon touched down on the lunar surface. Let’s celebrate this wonderful anniversary with a little help from the pulps! Not only were these covers illustrated by some of the finest artists working in the business but they also show how people imagined life on the Moon before Neil Armstrong took his one small step.
by Erin Nicole
Happy Moon Day!
by Enoch Bolles
54 years ago today, the first manned spaceflight to the Moon touched down on the lunar surface. Let’s celebrate this wonderful anniversary with a little help from the pulps! Not only were these covers illustrated by some of the finest artists working in the business but they also provide a clue as to how people imagined life on the Moon before Neil Armstrong first stepped out of the capsule.
by Albert Drake
by Edmund Emshwiller
by Frank Frazetta
by Howard V. Brown
by Joe Orlando
by Lawrence Sterne Stevens
by Robert Graef
by Roger Kastel
by Walter Popp
by John Melo
by Erin Nicole
Happy Moon Day!
Today is the 51st anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking the first steps of any human being on the Moon. Between 1969 and 1972, 11 more men would walk across the Moon. As of today, only four of them — Charles Duke, Buzz Aldrin, David Scott, and Harrison Schmitt — are still alive. The final manned mission to the Moon was in 1972. No one has stepped foot upon it since.
No one has been to the Moon in my lifetime and it’s sad to think that someday, there won’t be anyone left who has experienced walking on the lunar surface. We spent years trying to get to the Moon and now, we just take it for granted. We don’t appreciate the enormous risks that men like Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins took during the first moon landing. Today, would we even be able to pull off something like a moon landing or would we be too busy arguing with each other to care about anything beyond our own petty disagreements?
As a photographer, the Moon is one of my favorite subjects. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to take a good picture of the Moon. Every time that we’ve had a Super Moon or a Blood Moon, I’ve stood outside in our back yard with my camera and I’ve taken a lot of blurry pictures. In most of them, the Moon just looks like any other distant star in the night sky.
However, sometimes, I get lucky. Of all the pictures that I’ve ever taken of the moon, these four are my favorites:
Happy Moon Day from Through the Shattered Lens! My hope is that you’ll use his day to not only celebrate the first walk across the Moon but also the ambition and the imagination that made it all possible in the first place.
This seems appropriate for Moon Day, eh?
Enjoy!
(Photographed by Erin Nicole Bowman)
50 years ago today, man set foot on the moon for the very first time. A total of 12 men have walked on the moon, beginning with Neil Armstrong. On four of them are still living — Buzz Aldrin, David Scott, Charles Duke, and Harrison Schmitt. My hope is that someday, I’ll get to see us return. Not to climb up on my soapbox, but there’s so much out there to be discovered that it seems tragic and foolish to limit our curiosity and our imagination to just one planet. I hate to think that there may some day be a day when no one will be around to tell the story of personally walking across the Lunar surface.
In honor of Moon Day, watch as Neil Armstrong takes his steps on the moon back in 1969:
46 years ago today, Apollo 11’s lunar module successfully landed on the Moon and in the Sea of Tranquility. Soon afterwards, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the surface of the Moon.
Happy Moon Day from the Shattered Lens!
(photography by Erin Nicole)
Photograph by Erin Nicole
Photography by Erin Nicole
Through the Shattered Lens 