I have an idea that nowadays all one needs to do is go to the New Zealand Room at the Wellington Public Library, look up the microfilms of the newspapers, and take photocopies or save them to CD-R.

That's what I've been doing for years at my local library, although I've only been able to save to CD-R since late last year. I've just recently finished collecting and typing up all the newspapers clippings I could find during the early part of the space race, from September 1957 to April 1958. I also ordered microfilms of The West Australian newspaper and copied and typed up most of its articles and letters to the editor about Apollo 11.