He and his mom preserved a 1969 moon landing newspaper. 50 years later, he unwrapped it for the first time.

Fifty years ago, Glen Williams, along with an estimated 600 million other people around the globe, watched, transfixed, as a television screen showed Apollo 11 touching down on the moon.

Williams was 15 at the time, living in south suburban Riverdale. He was crazy about astronomy, and the moon landing, which he watched with his mom, dad and two sisters, was an enormous, life-changing event.

"I remember there was a lot of apprehension," Williams said. "I remember thinking, 'OK, they have to take off again from the moon. What if that goes wrong? What if they're stuck there?' That would have been terrible."

There was tremendous excitement too. A sense of unity embraced the nation. Tens of thousands of people