As a 10-year-old ’space geek’, Paul Rodgers was glued to the television when Neil Armstrong uttered the immortal words, ‘The Eagle has landed.’ Forty years on, he looks back at mankind’s giant leap – and the Cold War politics that turned the space race into a mad dash
The first sign of trouble came when the [...]
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‘The Eagle has landed’: A space geek remembers the moon shot
5 July, 2009 – 00:00
Welcome to my dream
10 March, 1995 – 10:55
A GAUNT, melancholy character clad in black, Morpheus, Prince of Sleep, strides through the realm of dreams with eyes like deep-set stars. Sometimes they are twinkling con-stellations, at others smouldering red dwarves or bottomless black holes.
“I dreamt I was the Sandman once,” says Neil Gaiman, Britain’s best-selling adult comic book author and creator of Morpheus. [...]
