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s I flipped through this week’s issue, an image on The Buzz (Page 13) stopped me in my tracks. It looks like a painting of a spectacular mountain range underneath a beautiful starry sky. But team and I tied ourselves into all sorts of inter-galactic knots trying to work out how long that might be in our years. Thinking about space took me back to when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon and spoke the famous words, ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ It was July 16, 1969, and my classmates and I were seated cross-legged on the floor of Birchgrove Public School’s library. Our eyes were fixed on a single, small black and white TV on top of a tall metal stand on wheels. From it we saw the grainy images of that historic moment. My memory is pretty fuzzy, but all our teachers were super-excited. I don’t think any of us kids really appreciated at the time that we were observing something astonishing. It still seems amazing all these years later. I just had a look at a grainy video of what the world watched on that day. It wasn’t hard to find on the internet. It gave me goosebumps. I’ve been teaching my eldest grandson, Harley, five, about the Moon and stars. As we live in a city, I can’t wait to take him to our wonderful outback and look up at the Milky Way with him. Space, and our world, truly are amazing.