Moon medal for sale

On the front is the iconic sentence - The Eagle Has Landed, and the date of the first manned lunar landing which was July 20 1969, with an engraving of the event.

The back carries the words: "This medallion contains metal from spacecrafts Columbia and Eagle that took astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins on their historic Apollo 11 mission that resulted in the first landing of man on the moon."

It's a priceless piece of history, Patrick thinks, and the plan is to sell it so that he can start the magazine he describes as his "legacy".

"I am sure nobody else in Great Britain has one of these - there were only 20,000 minted. They were all given out, and then there was nothing left."

The medal was presented to Patrick when he worked for Marconi in Frimley, Surrey, which worked on the Skylark satellite used in the Apollo mission. It was his responsibility to transport Skylark to Nordvijk in Holland, where the European Space Research Centre was based.

Patrick looked after a group from Hamilton Standard which was produced the spacecraft booster rockets and were based in Windsor Falls, in Connecticut. The delegation came to Patrick's house in Camberley where he entertained them at dinner - right up to the minute the electricity meter ran out and he had to hunt around in the dark for spare coins.

"They thought that was hilarious, of course," said Patrick.

The NASA medal was sent to him by way of thanks, along with a model spacecraft for his son which went up 1,000 metres into the sky and came down by parachute.

Patrick has worked hard to set up his own charity, Quality of Life Trust, in the hope of speaking up for those who are "disenfranchised". His idea is to fight for the "disabled in need", with the message: "It doesn't matter who you are, you are not on your own."

The dream now is to raise enough money from the sale of his medal to set up a magazine which he will call Get Together, and which he sees as his "legacy in Bexhill".