I watched a programme about this mission last night, I was in awe of it as a 7 year old in 68.

Boorman, Lovell and Anders were all just about middle aged men of 40, 40 and 35 when they flew this mission 53 years ago.

All three are still with us and are closing in on 94, 94 and Anders has just passed 88.

The NASA selection process has long fascinated me, a very large proportion of that generation of astronauts is either still with us or have lived deep into their 80’s and 90’s and some look like making it past the 100 mark.

The way they evaluated these guys must’ve been incredibly skilful.

Hearing Frank Boorman describing travelling at 7 miles per second and then talking about travelling half a million miles in between toilet dumps really summed up these guys for me!