I guess you've heard about Apollo 11. It took them an unusually long time to get ready to step out. It was a school night, but my dad let me stay up late to watch. Some time well after 11 PM, they actually made it out the hatch and I could barely keep my eyes open. As a kid, I was utterly consumed by the space program. I had a huge scrapbook of newspaper articles and I read every one of them. I was not utterly consumed by music. That didn't come until later. You can read elsewhere all the historical stuff. I'm fascinated by an oddball thing I learned recently. One of the least known works in the Pink Floyd catalog is called Moonhead. It seems that the BBC program Omnibus commissioned the Floyd to provide a soundtrack to the landing. For seven and a half minutes, with the occasional BBC announcer breaking in, they did just that. This was not the world famous Pink Floyd. That would come later. This was the psychedelic cult act Floyd, only recently divorced from ...