On 20 July 1969, Apollo Astronaut Neil Armstrong became legend and passed into history, to be remembered for as long as man shall live. So historic was the moment that my wife and I woke up the kids and sat them down with us on the living room sofa, to watch, in grainy black and white, the first man to walk on the moon.

We Earthbound mortals, safe on shore

Watched signals from afar

Of men the world’s not seen before

Neil Armstrong raised the bar

The god Apollo had to smile

He knows what heroes are

And knowing, looked on all the while

Neil Armstrong raised the bar