"It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."

So said Neil Armstrong, who sadly died yesterday, referring of course to the moon.

I've just taken my copy of Michael Light's "Full Moon" off the shelves. Awesome photography from NASA missions. Was taken by this one showing a picture by Charles Duke of a family photograph, taken during the Apollo 16 mission of 1972. Connecting the familiar and the unfamiliar.

I have a memory of the Apollo landing of July 20th 1969. I was sat with my parents in a brown velour swivel chair in our living room... the actual first steps on the moon were around 4am UK time so I don't reckon I watched that. I remember James Burke's involvement in the TV coverage...

A real Mission of Exploration...