Former Millennium Stadium executive and ex-Wales rugby international Rupert Moon told the BBC it was primarily a rugby stadium and would never be a Premiership-standard pitch.

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Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.

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"The most exciting thing I saw as a child was this vision of von Braun going to the back of the Moon, " he explains to BBC News Online, as he relaxes in his plus-fours and diamond socks in preparation for a round of golf.

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Buzz Aldrin, the pilot on the Apollo 11 moon landing, paid him this tribute in a BBC interview in 2009.

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The glass and steel cone on top of BBC Broadcasting House in central London stands, according to Mr Moon, "in tribute to all those who have sacrificed their lives so that the rest of us could be informed".

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