CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – John Noble Wilford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter whose coverage of America’s first moon landing is legendary, passed away at his Charlottesville home on Monday. He was 92.

According to The New York Times, his niece, Susan Tremblay, said the cause was prostate cancer.

“The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach,” Mr. Wilford wrote in his July 21, 1969, New York Times front-page article about Apollo 11, “the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.”

“It was man’s first landing on another world,” he wrote, “the realization of centuries of dreams, the fulfillment of a decade of striving, a triumph of modern technology and personal courage, the most dramatic demonstration of what man can do if he applies his mind and resources with single-minded determination.”