The quest to fly and the Promethean Moon landing of 1969

While time, nature and life are transient, human consciousness and imagination are limitless.

(I am travelling abroad and thus have not been able to publish What a Piece of Work is Mankind! regularly over the past few weeks. This piece is based on an article I wrote for Spiked in 2019. Part II of ‘Acquiring the Art of the Bird’ will be published in a few weeks.)

When Neil Armstrong descended the ladder from Eagle, the Apollo lunar module, and sto…