It was was pure coincidence that The Spectator should have landed itself with our own space correspondent — me — as chance witness to the launch of Europe’s first trip to the Moon last Sunday morning.
I was visiting an old friend who now works in IT support at the European Space Agency’s headquarters in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt.
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