'Poetry under siege by rockets': A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the <i>New York Times</i> of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk.

I use interdisciplinary methods (including desktop research, archival research, close readings and textual/image analysis) to examine how a hugely significant scientific event – the moon landing – was communicated to the public by the Times using a variety of modes, styles and voices, encoding a widespread ambivalence about human encroachment on outer space.

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