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Original LIFE Magazine — June 6, 1969
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from June 6, 1969, featuring Apollo 10 and “Barnstorming the Moon.” Published just weeks before Apollo 11’s historic lunar landing, this issue showcases extraordinary photographs taken by the Apollo 10 astronauts as they orbited the Moon and helped pave the way for mankind’s first lunar landing.
- Cover Subject: Apollo 10 — “Barnstorming the Moon”
- Inside This Issue: Apollo 10 astronauts’ photographs of the lunar surface; ballet star Edward Villella; young Wall Street investor Leeam Lowin; jockey and mystery writer Dick Francis; Thor Heyerdahl’s new Atlantic voyage; and more.
- Completeness: Complete original issue, not a reproduction
- Perfect For: Apollo and NASA collectors, space exploration enthusiasts, history buffs, vintage magazine collectors, and memorable 1969 birthday or anniversary gifts
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 The Presidency: Tossing Our Hats Over the Space Wall. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 8–28 Reviews: Book: “Henry James: The Treacherous Years (1895–1901),” by Leon Edel, Reviewed by Richard Freedman
Pg… 8–28 Reviews: Magazine: “US,” Edited by Richard Goldstein, Reviewed by Leonore Fleischer
Pg… 8–28 Reviews: Movie: “Winning,” with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–28 Reviews: Book: “American Scrapbook,” by Jerome Charyn, Reviewed by Daniel Stern
Pg… 8–28 Reviews: Baseball: Turbulent Century of Swat. The Game Turns 101. By Eliot Asinof
Pg… 30A Letters to the Editors
Pg… 30B Barnstorming the Moon: Photographs by the Astronauts of Apollo 10 Show the Lunar Surface as Man had Never Seen It
Pg… 44 Editorial: Supreme Court: No Friends Need Apply
Pg… 48 The Best Athlete in the Land?: Edward Villella is a Dancer, but You have to Rank Him with the Yastrzemskis, the Namaths and the Muhammad Alis. By David Martin. Photographed by Bill Eppridge
Pg… 62 New Kid on the Street: Leeam Lowin is 23 and Worth Millions?Maybe 50 Million?Because He Understands What Moves in the Stock Market. By Stephen Mahoney
Pg… 77 Science: Room with a Built–In Deluge
Pg… 81 Close–Up: Dick Francis, the Queen’s Jockey, Becomes a Hard–Riding Mystery Writer. By Jack Newcombe
Pg… 84 Great Dinners: No. 62: “Huachinango a la Veracruzana” is Red Snapper as Fancy as Its Name
Pg… 89 Special Report: “Kon–Tiki’s” Captain Starts Another Voyage?this Time Across the Atlantic, Aboard a Ship Called “Ra”
Pg… 92 Miscellany
