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Roughly 27,000 years ago, a cave-
dweller in the Hunsberge mountain in the south west of Namibia drew animals on a number of hand-sized stone slabs. These paintings, together with stone tools, animal bones and the ash from fires were later covered up by sediment and the debris and deposits left behind by later settlements.
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But what does this discovery have to do with space travel?
On 24 July, 1969, news of the successful return of the Apollo 11 space shuttle reached the archaeologist W.E. Wendt in a cave which up to that point had no name. He spontaneously named the excavation site “Apollo 11”, completely unaware of the fact that he was about to
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