The Man Who Won the Moon Race

摘要

For its annual "Man of the Year" cover on January 3,1969, Time magazine made the rare choice to honor not just one individual but three: NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders. Their Christmastime lunar voyage on Apollo 8 had been, in the editors' opinion, a "transcendent legacy" of 1968 and "a journey into man's future."