![]() ![]() ![]() Madness is also a running motif in the first major book about the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon. The theme of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is madness. While science targeted the bright face of the moon, artists explored the shadowy craters. ![]() Unease pervades the songs and films of the period: Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, for instance (which features a hostile onboard computer, Hal), the Creedence Clearwater Revival song Bad Moon Rising ("I see trouble on the way"), even Jonathan King's 1965 hit Everyone's Gone to the Moon. Forty years on, it's easy to forget the apprehensions and superstitions of that time: the fear that the American space programme would be punished for its hubris, much as the Titanic had been, or that the astronauts would meet more than they'd bargained for (aliens, death rays, poison gases). ![]()
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