Les premiers pas de l'homme sur la Lune

Geneviève Keiffer, Dominique Veillon (co-author), Albert Ducrocq (intro.)
Year1986
PublisherLa Documentation française
PlaceParis
LanguageFR
ISBN9782110016164
Pages63
SeriesLes Médias et l'Événement
Rating★★★☆☆ (3/5)
AudienceGeneral, Student
LevelBeginner
Keywords
Apollo ProgramMoonpress coverageprimary sources
ThemesApollo Program, Space Social Sciences

Published by La Documentation française in 1986 in the "Les Médias et l'Événement" series, this documentary file revisits the first crewed Moon landing (Apollo 11, 21 July 1969) through the lens of its media coverage. An opening essay by Albert Ducrocq precedes four parts: the live television broadcast, the French and international print press, the shift from dream (Jules Verne, fiction) to reality, and the "post-Apollo" moment (scientific usefulness, the US–Soviet rivalry, space law, the future of the Moon). Numerous facsimiles of July 1969 newspapers and wire dispatches, a chronology of space firsts and a bibliography round out the volume.

📖 Editorial Review

A documentary file from La Documentation française, this volume in the "Les Médias et l'Événement" series is less an account of the Apollo 11 landing than of the way the press and television of July 1969 presented it to the public, a media-history angle that gives it its originality. …