Perhaps the most intriguing work that we did at that stage – and Arthur Howe did this – was some of the returned lunar rocks. As you probably know, the Russians had sent spaceships to the Moon, not men but spaceships. They mechanically dug up some of the lunar regolith and took that back to Earth... the so called Lunar Program that they had... and we acquired some of their samples to look at, and certainly the NASA samples we had ready access to because Keith Runcorn, who was the Professor of Physics, was already on the NASA team and gave me an introduction there and he was able to get me as a senior investigator so we had all of the Apollo mission samples.

One thing we did do at a later stage I went to one of the Apollo lunar launches, and that was just an extraordinary experience. I can’t elaborate on it really but... unless you’ve been there you have no concept of what the size of these things is, what the power of it is, what the impact of seeing these is.