Moon walker in Cyprus next week

US ASTRONAUT Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon, will arrive in Cyprus on June 7 to give a lecture the next day on the historic voyage of his spacecraft, Apollo-11, and set the stage for the 100th anniversary of Popular Bank.

On July 20, 1969, Armstrong, now 68, stepped from the lunar lander, Eagle, onto the lunar surface and into history with his famous “… small step… giant step…” flag planting.

His visit is being underwritten by the Popular Bank, at whose behest he will deliver a lecture at the International Conference Centre, entitled: “Light years: The legacy of Apollo 11and what it means beyond the millennium.”

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