Baby Steps on the Moon

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Forty years ago today the human race reached another world. Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle’s landing pad into history. I remember watching the fuzzy, ghostly image while waiting to ship out for Vietnam. Even though my thoughts were primarily about where I was going, and how much I didn’t want to go, that image griped my attention and jammed everything but it to the back of my mind.

What an achievement for a species that a little over a century ago dreamed of powered flight. The landing on the moon will be remembered as one of the greatest achievements of the human race. It has been pointed out to me that 200 years from now people will speak of it with the same reverence given to Isaac Newton, Christopher Columbus, and the Wright brothers, maybe more so.

It is truly an amazing time to be alive. To have witnessed our landing on the Moon is like being present for the discovery of the New World.