... While Apollo 11 was blasting off from Cape Canaveral taking Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins to the Moon ...
16th July 1969 ... a very long time ago ...
I still think that it was rather poignant that Neil Armstrong took in his Personal Preference Kit a piece of wood from the Wright brothers' 1903 airplane's left propeller and a piece of fabric from its wing.
For me ... Rushing home from school to watch everything the BBC was to broadcast ... where good old Dad had bought our first colour TV to mark the event ... Great shame most of the NASA live mission video was still B&W
