Parallels

[pecunium]

My grandmother was born in 1902. She was a little older than the airplane. She, as did so much of the world, lived to see man, a purely surface of the world creature, walk on the Moon.

I was born, in 1967. I, just barely, recall watching that moon landing happen.

I doubt, sadly, that the same level of change (from surface travelling, to moonwalking) will happen before I die.

But today, forty years ago, Niel Armstrong left Eagle, and trod the surface of another world. It's possbile he was the first being in the universe to ever do it. In any case, he was the first being from Earth to do it (and no, I am not going to entertain what if's about aliens abuducting legionaires, etc.).

"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind".


Armstrong belongs to a very small club, all Americans. Buzz Aldrin was one of those

Forty years, where'd they go?

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[izzydesan.livejournal.com]

I am currently listening to the rebroadcast in real-time. I barely remember this from my childhood (I was 5 at the time), but still get heart palpitations just thinking about it. I hope that we do live to see man set foot back on the moon if not Mars in our lifetimes.