Man Walks On the Moon

It hardly seems credible, but it is 36 years since a man first set foot on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first of our species to walk on the Moon. I can forgive him the fluffing of his famous line – I’d probably be a gibbering wreck if I were in his place at the time.

It seemed a time of innocence then – we were all dreaming of colonies on the moon and there was a real excitement about the exploration of space. Today, that seems naive and the idea of people living in moon colonies seems further away than ever – back in the realms of the golden age of Science Fiction. What happened to make us lose our innocence? Er, OK, that’s probably a rhetorical question…

Update: Google is celebrating the anniversary as well…