Four decades on, it is coming a lot closer to home.
The space race has already transformed such fields as telecommunications, TV broadcasting, climate and weather forecasting, information sharing, commerce, security, banking and navigation.
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Scotland in the space age
In the summer of 1969, when Neil Armstrong left that first footprint on the lunar surface, space was an ethereal idea to most of us, as remote as it was vast.
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