This week sees the 50th anniversary of what I consider to be the best thing the Human race has ever achieved. As I’m actually 50 years old, Apollo 11 has been there my whole life. I’ve looked up at the moon and not seen what people before me saw - to my ancestors it was a mythological thing, an unknown. To me, and all how have been born since; We know what it is, we know what it’s made of. We’ve been there.
I’ve wondered at the size of a Saturn 5, lying on it’s side and filling a warehouse. I’ve walked on the launch pad Apollo 11 took off from. I’ve stood in the shadow of greater things than any of us could be alone.
This week is going to be amazing but also somehow bitter sweet. I always hoped to see people walk on the moon again, as I was too young to appreciate it happening in the 70’s. Recent events have somewhat put that in jeopardy for me, but I still hold out for it to happen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006rcd/click-1001-a-space-odyssey
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006w6z