I can’t believe that the promises my generation where given have come to nothing. Where is the moon base except in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson‘s creation?

Moonbase Alpha was sent hurtling uncontrollably into space – we, after the cold war’s race for the moon ended, were left earth locked. The promises of putting a man on Mars by the 1980’s just fizzled out when the cold war faded.

Whatever Happened to the Space Age

I did a series of paintings based on the space race…

Bring back the cold war we need to be less complaisant – we need the human challenge. The moon landing brought the world together it transcended nationalism and distrust – ironic considering the race for the moon was funded by Russia’s and America’s fears of extreme communism or capitalism.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82. What a waste of a dream. As an 11 year old I watched the first moon landing in 1969. I was mad about everything to do with space travel, I would read anything that was about rockets, cosmonauts and astronauts.

Later in my life I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of my all time hero Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, that was for me like touching history, if only secondhand (excuse the pun).