Last Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, an event schoolkids will read about a thousand years from now, after most of the trivia and follies of the 20th century have turned to dust.
There were just 66 years between the first flight of the Wright brother’s wood-and-cloth glider with a strapped-on 30 horsepower engine to the 3,300 ton Saturn V rocket that carried Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins to the moon. The event still staggers the imagination.