Between science and geopolitics: Global media and the new space race

In 1969, when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to land on the Moon, the banner headline on the front page of German paper Bild had said “the Moon is now American”. 

But with Chandrayaan-3’s triumph, the same paper has asked “who owns the Moon now” – even as back home, the front page of The Indian Express has declared that “the Moon is Indian”.