In early 1966 the Russians made their first unmanned landing on the moon.
Telemetry signals from the spacecraft were received at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire and were spotted by a staff member who recognised the data format.
The observatory was able to turn the uncoded data into images of the moon’s surface after borrowing a Mufax telefax printer from the Express Manchester office.
It secured an extraterrestrial front page for the Express, three years before Neil Armstrong would take his “one small step for man”.
