As it’s forty years since man first landed on the moon, I’ve trawled through the Speccie archives to see what we wrote about the event at the time. There’s one feature article in the issue dated 26 July, 1969, which I’ve reprinted below. Oddly, the landing isn’t mentioned on the magazine’s cover – and nor is it the topic of that week’s leader – but old hands around the office assure me that could have been a result of arcane printing practices, which saw the cover go to print days before the rest of the magazine. Still, the article the magazine did contain is a neat tribute to human ingenuity and daring. Here it is:
Success story John Graham
Washington
The Americans are simply an amazing people. If the qualities that the British pride themselves on show best under strain, then the qualities of Americans are most clear under the light of success.
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