Letter to the Editor: First lunar landing perfectly remembered

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of humans landing for the first time on the moon, I do remember it. I was five years old. It was an amazing feat of engineering by Nasa in 1969 to send three men there and back safely to the Earth on Apollo 11.

I saw the TV pictures of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon and Michael Collins orbiting it and waiting for them to eventually redock with him and return to Earth. The deep blackness of space on the Moon’s horizon were scary images to a five-year-old.