I've been thinking a lot lately about Frank Sinatra, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and, unfortunately, the pop-artist Jeff Koons. With the recent lunar touchdown of the Odysseus spacecraft, the three are now forever linked to the moon, but for very different reasons.
We can talk about Koons in a bit. But first, here's Sinatra and Aldrin.
It's July 20, 1969. An estimated 650 million people watch in grainy black-and-white wonder as Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon.