The Guardian newspaper is a bastion of neanderthalic left wingerism, with editorials that generally read like something that would’ve been written a century ago to appeal to the early communists and anarchists. But even they can get it right… from time to time.

Neil Armstrong’s death should be a wake-up call for the world

Nobody born since 1935 has stepped on another world.

Now, in 2012, I have to face the possibility that I could live to be an old man in a world where the only memories our civilization has of planetary exploration are a few grainy, black and white images, carefully preserved from a century before; dusty footprints and scraps of metal abandoned in a place we never go.