Walking On The Moon

Alastair Appleton writes about going to see the documentary film: In The Shadow Of The Moon with his mum and dad, and recalling some of the emotions he had as a child about the times. It is amazing to think that it is now nearly forty years ago that a man first stepped onto the surface of the moon. I was lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, watching a tiny TV with terrible reception at the time. I woke up just after Armstrong stepped onto the surface and so I missed his famous words. Typical.

 

Appleton captures the wonder and the almost rickety nature of this great human adventure. As one of the early astronauts, John Glenn, once said when asked what went through his mind while awaiting the moment of blastoff, it was: "this rocket has twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."