The Newseum in Washington DC had a recent exhibit of man on the moon headlines from around the world. Most of the major daily newspapers around that time published multiple editions throughout the day. Some of these front pages changed radically. Walter Cronkite held up an early edition of the New York Times (dated 7/21/69) that was completely different than the later "final" edition which ended up in the archives. This edition had no pictures taken off of the video feed, but rather the standard group shot of the crew. The Daily News edition shown at the Newseum also differs in the cover photo (compared to the final edition that was published).
Every Apollo 11 newspaper retrospective I've seen show only the front page, but never the back page! But what did the back page look like? Normally the Daily News and New York Post relegate the sports coverage to this section, but for moonday, they tried something new. Here is the Daily News version:
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