For the space buffs among you rugby aficionados, this last week has been an extraordinary trip down memory lane as we relive minute by minute the events of Apollo 13 which occurred exactly 50 years ago.
Apollo 13 took off on April 13, 1970 and finally got home nearly five days later by, shall we say, the scenic route.
Now lockdown can do funny things to your thought process – too much time to ponder and dive down blind mental alleyways – but I would strongly argue there are some important lessons for sport and rugby from what happened 200,000 miles above us half a century a...
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