From the Archive: Fly Me to the Moon

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…to the Moon and Beyond, WWD, July 15, 1969.Fairchild Archive/WWD

On Wednesday, four astronauts will fly to the moon on Artemis II, NASA’s next space mission — just as Michael Collins, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. did on July 20, 1969, achieving humanity’s quest of landing on the moon’s surface. In its special feature on that mission, Apollo 11, Women’s Wear Daily acknowledged the moment. In the midst of it was fashion, ready to embrace the significance of the time when science, space and technological advances merged to revolutionize fashion’s future.