Images that still make us dream

The daily Libération describes the mystique still surrounding the moon landing even forty years later: "The images, even in black-and-white, still make us dream. The Soviet Union, once the great rival, has disappeared, the moon is forgotten, and the astronauts are old men who take small steps. What remains is the moonwalk, the real one, the original. July 20 is also that unending cultural matrix that inspired all the great American writers of the last century, from [Norman] Mailer to Tom Wolfe and [John] Updike. The music scene and Hollywood haven't forgotten The Dark Side of the Moon either. Space is that last frontier, but today an imaginary one, a dubious Utopia, far from the certainties of Nasa and [John F] Kennedy. Back to earth."

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