The lesser
known Apollo 10.
This month is
the fiftieth anniversary of the first Moon landing an event now so familiar
that it has probably lost much of it’s sense of achievement. Nowadays people
are more interested in trying to prove it was somehow faked than being impressed that it happened which doesn’t say
much for advancement in other areas of life. I don’t really recall much about
it except that there was a buzz of excitement and families did huddle together
watching grainy tv footage as events unfurled. When you’re a child it is hard
to understand the technology and power of sending someone to the Moon, in fact
I’d only just put aside the notion that the Moon was actually a giant luminous
face in the sky. By 1969 I was probably formulating the idea that it was
inhabited by alien beings of some sort. When Neil Armstrong’s boots touched the
lunar ground those aliens had just stayed hidden.
