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P20-21 Layout 1 20 Established 1961 Lifestyle Features Tuesday, July 9, 2019 In this file photo taken on November 28, In this file photo taken on July 06, 1969 British Formula One driver Jackie Stewart nego- This file photo taken on March 10, 1969 1969 French actress Brigitte Bardot In this file photo taken on August 21, 2007 Canadian Space Agency’s Dafydd R ciates a curve in his Matra MS80 during the 55th French Formula One Grand Prix at the shows Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, attends the 24th “Night of the cinema” (Dave) Williams describes his experience in space at a press conference after circuit de Charade in Clermont-Ferrand on July 6, 1969. — AFP photos who was born on 15 April 1939. (Nuit du cinema) at the Theatre Marigny, the space shuttle Endeavour landed at Kennedy Space Center in Cape in Paris. Canaveral, Florida. alf a century has passed-but the moment Moon the Playboy Club in New York with Roman Polanski and triumph was greeted with a shriek of joy shared by the the Moon,” said Volynov, who flew on two Soyuz mis- Hpioneer Neil Armstrong took his historic first step my wife Helen. I knew a lot of the astronauts because thousands of people around me. “Nobody believed (it sions. “We feared the Americans were getting ahead of on the lunar surface is etched in the memories of they were coming to see Formula One and Indycar races. could happen) a few years earlier but I always was sure it us as our program was losing momentum,” said Volynov, those who tuned in. The grainy pictures coming back on I was blown away by what I was seeing,” said Stewart, would come to pass. It was a great leap forward for adding that two competing Russian programs meant that the night of July 20, 1969, from a quarter of a million who with his son Mark produced a 2014 documentary, humanity,” said Cardin, who later would meet Armstrong “we ended up being overtaken.” He later met Armstrong. miles (380,000 kilometers) away fascinated viewers “Last Man on the Moon.” and mission colleague Buzz Aldrin. “We quickly became friends, communicating via a Soviet young and old. AFP spoke to some, who recalled their joy translator. The pictures of us saluting one another were and emotion, including Dafydd Williams, now a Canadian BRIGITTE BARDOT BERTRAND PICCARD only declassified after the break-up of the Soviet Union. astronaut with NASA who has twice been into space-in “I was in Normandy on that night of July 20-21, 1969. I The Swiss psychiatrist and aviator was 11 at the time 1998 and 2007 but who was a schoolboy back then. was shooting the Bear and the Doll,” recalled the French and recalled how “I was lucky enough to be invited to ALAIN PROST screen icon. “I watched this miracle without really believ- Cape Kennedy to watch the rocket take off on July 16 as French four-time Formula One champion Prost was DAFYDD WILLIAMS ing it, it was so extraordinary, unachievable-and yet they my father worked for NASA. “On July 20, I was at a just 14 when Armstrong made his great leap but “it’s one “It was a pretty remarkable day. The sixties was this did it. “Human genius can reach the divine.” restaurant with my family at Palm Beach, Florida, when a of those memories which always stay with you. “My par- decade of exploration and the highlight of the decade NASA official tipped off my mother that we had to hurry ents had a little studio at Cannes and we were on holiday. was humans walking on the surface of the Moon. “If you CLAUDIA CARDINALE up and get back as the astronauts leaving (the module) I still recall that day so clearly-I remember looking at the were alive at that time, everybody remembers where they The Italian actress, then aged 31, has hazy memories had been brought forward two hours. TV and the Moon simultaneously and saying to myself were. “I was fifteen years old at the time, at home watch- of exactly where she was when she saw the broadcast. “We rushed home as quickly as we could. Shortly ‘what’s going on?’ “It’s a crazy memory —- you felt ing it with my family glued to the television set, which But “a few months later, Neil Armstrong, who was an beforehand, my father had bought a television especially something is happening. At the time we thought it was was black and white because we didn’t have money to amateur trumpeter, dropped by for a house party (in the for the occasion. “I remember the first step as if it were totally impossible.” afford a colour TV. “It changed the course of history and Rome countryside), invited by Franco Cristaldi,” yesterday. I had the impression I was watching the most for me it demonstrated the fact that the seemingly impos- Cardinale’s first husband. “My brothers accompanied. important event in the history of humanity. I still think JEAN-MICHEL JARRE sible is actually possible. “Watching NASA going from We’d hired two trumpets-one got bent by Neil in a state so... The composer of electronic music watched the broad- never having flown humans in space in 1960 to have of inebriated joy.” cast live and recalls “celebrating the era when we had a humans walking on the surface of the Moon in 1969... BORIS VOLYNOV vision and an appetite for the future-it was an absolute what an incredible decade!” PIERRE CARDIN Volynov was a 34-year-old Russian cosmonaut who inspiration for musicians, filmmakers and writers. Pop “I was on the Champs-Elysees, with thousands of saw his country, after taking an early lead in the space culture was born at the same time as the beginning of the JACKIE STEWART people, waiting for the dream to become reality,” said the race, beaten to the Moon by the Americans. “Of course conquest of space.” — AFP Formula One champion Stewart was a friend of fashion designer, then 47, now 96. “When Neil Armstrong we felt a certain rancour as we had our own Moon pro- Armstrong and also of Eugene Cernan, the last man to became the first man to walk on the Moon I felt an gram. I was myself in training to walk in lunar gravitation date to walk on the Moon in December 1972. “I was in immense satisfaction. We were all awaiting news and this conditions. We had all dreamed of one day walking on Changing face of the Moon Cinema versions of the Moon have been equally fanci- A man looks at “Atlas ful. In George Melies’ extraordinary 1902 work “A Trip to Photographique de la lune” the Moon”, the travellers find giant mushrooms and (1894-1908) by Maurice excitable natives. He follows Verne with a cannon-pro- Loewy and Pierre Henri pelled space capsule-and a splashdown at sea on their Puiseux on July 1, 2019, return. As technology brought the possibility of a lunar part of a new exhibition by flight closer, that seemed to dampen the market for the the Metropolitan Museum more fanciful lunar tales. Classic sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein still used the Moon as the setting for his 1966 of Art in New York, to open y landing on the Moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong and novel “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”. on July 3, 2019, called Buzz Aldrin arrived at a place which, up until that B But by this time, humans inhabit it-and Heinlein’s tale is “Apollo’s Muse: The Moon point, had been the stuff of fantasy. But even after about the revolt of the lunar colony against rule from in the Age of Photography”. they transformed fantasy into fact, it is a place that contin- Earth. And just a year before the real Moon landings, ues to capture the imagination of storytellers, as it has for Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1968 film “2001” has astronauts at centuries. Literature, novels, cinema... from antiquity to the an outpost on the Moon finding a mysterious obelisk present, the Moon has been the object of any number of there. Here, as in Clarke’s original story, the Moon has imaginary expeditions. As far back as the second century become little more than the stage for something far more BC, the satirist Lucian of Samosata, in “True Stories”, has always been an object of both science and art, obser- important. imagined a voyage to the Moon that saw the author and vation and imagination,” said exhibit curator Mia Fineman, Perhaps what the 1969 Apollo mission to the Moon did his fellow travellers find the King of the Moon caught up in during a press presentation. was not so much end the telling of tales about the satellite a war with the King of the Sun. The Moon has been photographed since the medium’s as change the kind of stories being told. After the Apollo In the 17th century, French writer Cyrano de Bergerac- earliest days, and in 1840 American John William Draper landings, the Moon became a focus for pop culture. The the real one, not the character in Edmond Rostand’s made the first daguerreotype-an early version of the pho- heroes of the achingly kitsch 1970s science fiction televi- famous play-wrote a tale titled “The Other World: Comical to using silver-plated copper. “The fascination with the sion series “Space 1999” are based on the Moon-and have History of the States and Empires of the Moon”.
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