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when I first saw it I was thought I'd died and gone to heaven. This is Robin McKee.

This is Robin McKee.

I'm the science editor of the observer have been so for the last 42 years and I've covered everything from age to zoology or archaeology to you name it.

And in that time there's one topic that's always really grabbed him.

Astronomy and space, I've got that sort of

got that kind of boish sort of interest in it,

and it always keeps me going. The reason, Roger, we copy, and we're standing by for your DGB.

Yeah, I'm going to step off the lambs.

The moon is always there. We set foot on it now more than 50 years ago.

That's one small step for man.

One science lead for mankind. It's easy to take it for granted, but Robin never has.

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