At the beginning, there was a dream...

.... which called « Moon »

Walking on the moon...

... Contemplate the Earthlight.

The start of a dream…

Everything began so as my young age. In fact, at 3, I watched on live Neil Armstrong, walking this 20th July 1969, Boston time (so be it on 21st July at 3 h 56, to Paris time) the ground of Moon! Humanity realises so an old ancestral dream.

“It’s a little step for Man, but a bound of giant for Humanity”

announced then Neil Armstrong who put down his feet (the left one) on the lunar ground. This exploit is broadcast in front of millions from viewers couldn’t get over. A quarter-hour later, the other American man Eldwin Aldrin (so often forgotten) join him for this 2 hours historical walking.

That it! I was marked at life from the print of spatial conquest and world dream who opened themselves to us today, the moon, tomorrow mars... ».
During long years, TV programs kept churning on the exploits of the astronauts and rockets, which propelled for moving heaven and earth. Moving heaven and earth, yes right it, that I want to do, so do I, I must walk on this far and away ground but already near since Apollo missions.    At 5, while the last mission Apollo : the 17th. On 7th December 1972, I was persuaded that Santa Claus went down also from a LM (Lunar Module). It’s telling you to such an extend that this events marked my childhood.

On this time, fiction overtook still reality; with the broadcast of Space 1999 from December 1975 to August 1980 on TF1 (French national first channel. 1st season), it was the first time, indeed at 8, I saw a science-fiction movie. I was fascinated, captivated and completely enthralled. The realism and the quality from sets and ships were more than a dream. It was an invitation to a journey on Moon and in space. It was also with this plot that I heard to speak for the 1st time about a computer, a magical machine that could calculating, managing and planning everything. I didn’t know again nine years later, we were introduced to each other and will change my life, but it is another story....

You thought so, I realised quickly that lucks to walk on the moon were rather minimal even non-existent and that would remain only a nice dream...A nice dream spoke by BOGDANOV brothers on TF1 (French national first channel) from 1979 to 1987.  These showed advances from technologies and why not in a close future, “tourist-travels on Moon and on orbit in spatial stations would be within everyone reach...

For the youngest person who read these lines and didn’t saw these programs : I think that you watched at least the 2nd season from SPACE 1999 on La 5 (ancient 5th French channel disappeared in 1992) and thanks to it, you took a liking to Moon, since you read this page to the end. 

I realised so, contrary to all expectations, one part of my dream.  I moved one piece of Moon and this little piece of a great dream that I guest you to share with me ...