1965

From an article on a page of The Buffalo Evening News that I found lining the bottom of an old trunk in my Grandma’s attic:

Astronomer Predicts U.S. Will Land on the Moon First
But Dr. Levitt Says at Buffalo State That Soviet May Make the First Lunar Orbit
By Ralph Wallenhorst
Russia may be the first to put a manned reconnaissance ship in orbit around the moon but the U.S. will be the first to land on the lunar surface, Dr. I.M. Levitt predicted here Friday.
The noted astronomer forecast that a Soviet astronaut will circle the moon next year. Landing on the moon requires booster rockets with greater thrust than either the Soviet or the U.S. are now using, Dr. Levitt said.
The lunar landing is scheduled for 1971 but the U.S. may bring it off two years earlier because the giant F-1 rockets now being tested have proved so trouble-free, said Dr. Levitt, director of Philadelphia’s Fels Planetarium….
The U.S. could start building an orbiting “space station” by 1967 and will almost certainly do so by 1970….
Future space vehicles will be rotated in flight to provide an artificial gravity….
A space ferry, powered by nuclear engines, will be shuttling between satellites above the Earth and the moon by 1976.
“In this fashion, we will be able eventually to build up a civilization on the moon.”
We’ll put a reconnaissance satellite in permanent orbit around Mars by 1969, to photograph the red planet through an entire “growing season.” By 1976 we’ll land a man on Mars….
Later we’ll land on one of Jupiter’s moons. By the end of this century, we’ll be sending space ships “to the end of the solar system.”
Pluto, the most distant known planet, is 75 times further from Earth than is Mars.

The date on the article is July 24, 1965. The rest of the page is the want ads. The most expensive car listed is a 1965 Ford Falcon for $1868. There are also planes for sale. A 1963 used Cessna 150 cost $5350. My used Neon cost twice that.