[Just offering this picture of a rapt audience in Central Park, July 20th 1969, watching the moon landing, as a mild rebuttal to Alex's dismissal of the space program. Image via AP]

Forty years ago today, some guys landed on the moon and walked around, and there were thousands of money-making newspapers on hand to chronicle it. They used words like "spacemen" and drew nifty mod-looking illustrations. Here's a front-page gallery.