Words From an Upside-Down World color-black-and-white “The past is a map

“The past is a map

a page reprint allows someone special to display a significant moment in time

But the waterfront was about to get a makeover thanks to a vision of Robert Moses

Behind the plate are catcher Yogi Berra and umpire Augie Donatelli

” a special newspaper section commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969

Words From an Upside-Down World color-black-and-white “The past is a mapArtist Mike McQuade combines NASA photos and graphics to illustrate Words From an Upside Down World, an article about the moon published in The Times on July 14, 2019. In the article, Ken Liu writes that the Apollo program gave the world a chance to foster good will and see the Earth as never before, but the mission was entangled in a vast web of power politics on the ground. This image is part of our collection of editorial illustrations available as