America has been awash with commemorations of what sort or another for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – now 50 years old. But on July 20, 1969 it wasn’t just the people of the United States that was glued to television screens, watching what seemed incredible then – and today seems even more incredible. The technology that landed man on the moon looks decidedly primitive by today’s standards. There is the oft repeated fact that there is more hi-tech in the average cell phone today than there was aboard Apollo 11 in 1969.