Holidays on the moon: out of this world package deals from the 60s

It's 1969 and the Observer is boldly predicting a new vacation experience

Before anyone had even landed on the moon, the Observer Magazine was already thinking way ahead with science correspondent Gerald Leach's travel guide for the first holidaymakers there in 30 years' time (Wish You Were Here'; 13 July 1969), though it was sensible enough to counterbalance this with a report on the dangers of space travel.

Safe to say that the views from the moon will beat those on the Costa Brava. The Earth will dominate the sky, looking nearly four times bigger than the moon does from home, and much brighter.'