Aug 20, 2026 – 5.00amIn July 1969, Bhaskar Eswaran remembers his primary-school class in Sydney being sat down in front of a black-and-white TV to watch grainy images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Aged six at the time, Eswaran didn’t grasp the significance of the footage – he thought it was just another sci-fi adventure like Star Trek or Lost in Space.But later that year, the Apollo 11 crew visited Sydney as part of a global tour and, seeing the astronauts’ pictures in the newspaper, the veracity of the achievement hit home. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, these men are real-life superheroes’.”Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Luke BenedictusWatch editorLuke Benedictus is watch editor of The Australian Financial Review. He also writes about wellness.Fetching latest articles
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