An audio recording of what Pink Floyd was up to in the night of the Moon landing, courtesy of the BBC, who as Paul McAuley puts “had bought into the 60s” enough to invite them to play live during that long night. It seems fitting to have such a mystic, psychedelic band as audio commentary on the zenith of the greatest technocratic undertaking of the twentieth century. Today both are minority interests as going concerns, objects of nostalgia to everybody else. Even to me, a longlife science fiction fan and firm believer in space exploration, the Apollo project looks obsolete, irrelevant, the last hurrah of the technocratic age. The Apollo project is an awesome, inspiring story and I’m glad we did it, but we don’t need to repeat it, just like we don’t need to repeat Dark Side of the Moon.