Moonraker
The news today told me that it was 40 years ago that the US of A and the Apollo 11 mission landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon. The first thing that amazes me about that is that it happened only a few years before I was born. It seems like something that happened much longer ago then the same year as Woodstock. Nevertheless, and more importantly, in my estimation, it is just about the most amazing thing mankind has ever accomplished. When people say "They put a man on the moon, but they can't..." it seems like a valid question. It is an incredible feat of vision and ingenuity, and obviously engineering. No human has been on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. And as talk heats up about making a return Buzz Aldrin thinks we should set our collective sights further afield, to Mars. It's a bold, bold idea and one that would require global co-operation, as opposed to competition, to make it work. Either way, it makes for some wonderful science fiction, and frankly has been for 40 years.
Pace out.
posted by Vitamin S @ 5:43 p.m.
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