Why look back to Apollo when we've done so much since?
If you think you'd have liked it in 1969, either you weren't there or you've forgotten what was invented since. Is it because we're unhappy with what we now have? Are you excited by the Apollo moon landing – more precisely, the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the takeoff and successful landing and return of the Apollo 11 mission and its crew? There's been no shortage of places to watch and follow it, from wechoosethemoon (named after Kennedy's famous phrase from his speech in September 1962) to CAPCOM (the person talking to the astronauts from the Canaveral Space Centre) on Twitter. There's an astronauts' get-together (though it seems Neil Armstrong isn't prepared to take even one small step out of his house to go there.) It's complete immersion. And we're certainly not immune here at the Guardian. What more could you want?...
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