I was in the last year of infant school, noramly we would have gone to watcth the junior school sports day. Instead we where sheeperded into the school hall to watch ‘history’ in the making. A legand has passed 😥
Makes you ask…what have I done that people will remember me by?
As a Radio 4 listener, Neil’s passing has a particularly poignent significance.
Hope we can honour his generation by equal feets of exploration.
Genuinely can’t think of a word to describe him. Hero, legend and inspirational all just don’t seem superlative enough. There are so few people ever to have lived that can match him in the ‘what I have achieved’ league, and I’d wager fewer still will match him in the future.
It’s a big loss for (a) man, but a giant loss for mankind. RIP.
Coincidentally, I was at the Science Museum today, looking at (amongst other things) an actual Apollo capsule. The one thing that I always thought astonshing about the whole thing was that none of them ever took one look at it and went, “you know, you can bugger off.”
I was in the last year of infant school, noramly we would have gone to watcth the junior school sports day. Instead we where sheeperded into the school hall to watch ‘history’ in the making. A legand has passed