The Story of Apollo And The Men on The Moon Years Later

On October 17, 2005, the 40 greatest magazine covers of the last 40 years were unveiled at the 2005 American Magazine Conference (AMC) in Puerto Rico, by Mark Whitaker, Editor of Newsweek and President of American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), and AMC Chairman Evan Smith, Editor of Texas Monthly.

In 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong took what he infamously called “a small step for man, a giant leap for mankind,” an extraordinary feat of imagination, engineering, technology, and human grit was realized. ‘Apollo 11’ had landed on the moon, and the world was never the same. Now, the editors at LIFE bring you the special edition ‘The Moon Landing: 50 Years Later.’

In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert’s documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the Moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forty years later, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earth-shaking event.