One Small Step
As I type this Neil Armstrong is preparing to take his first steps on the moon.
Forty years ago that is. I have been listening to the "live" broadcast of the Apollo 11 Flight for the 40 year anniversary of the historic event. I have been listening at wechoosethemoon.org at work since liftoff last week. This is probably one of the finest things I have experienced on the Internet.
Earth view from the moon by the Apollo mission
The Apollo astronauts are true heroes.
Things were not as smooth and prepared as you might think. They were really taking a chance. They also had a very intense preparation for the trip. They did the work equivalent to gaining 2 doctorate degrees in their preparation to travel to the moon. In other words, going to the moon was not easy or safe. I was once honored to meet Apollo Astronaut James Erwin (I even have an autographed photo of him with my father). It was truly an honor. They are men that deserve respect.
Today, we hardly notice when the space shuttle goes up.
I think somehow, we have lost our goals. Our desire to compete. To excel. Maybe things are too easy. Or maybe, we are just too easily entertained. It's easy to sit back and watch TV and vote for your favorite on a phone.
I don't mean everyone needs to be an astronaut to be a hero.
I just mean we all should push the envelope once in a while. Strive to be more. To learn new things. To go beyond. At least stop being a couch potato (or couch tomato as my wife says).
If you missed it, the website above says you can follow the mission broadcast at your own time. If you have kids, it might be something worth studying with them. Give them something to shoot for. Give yourself a hero to motivate you to do something more.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
A giant step for mankind
Where will your next step take you?
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The Space program still amazes me. My daughter has even started watching NASA TV with me, it is awesome.
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I am just glad the conspiracy theorist have kept stchum over this.
by telling us the story about the Apollo you got my emotions related to that really i am so pleased that we got the chance to hear that one & really your all the things aspects related to them are 100% applicable!
when the Apollo mission was beginning i was not present in this world at that time but i got to know about it from my father & today i got some info from you & also i visited the given site by you there i watched the whole Apollo mission as a virtual thanks for that really it sounds like i am also present at that time !
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Cool article. When I was a kid I wanted be a astronaut:)
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Yes, one small step..
I wasn't around 40 years ago when the moon landing happened, but I watched some of this live on the website you refereed to, actually a friend sent it to me the other day. I think it's awesome how they were able to do that and just stream everything live as it were back in the day!
Till then,
Jean
It's really good post about one small step. It's not easy task going to the moon, sometimes i watched space videos on youtube.
Edward did you heard those voices around the virtual spaceship as Apollo !it was just like you are also with the spokespersons!
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well, it's a contentious issue, despite the heaps of evidence available to us from NASA personnel, TV archives and museums (not to mention physically returned moon rocks), there is still a grumbling doubt that the whole thing might just have been made up. The movie 'Capricorn One', where fictitious American astronauts were removed from their rocket and driven to a film set in the desert to record their Moon landing, has a deep and lasting resonance with me. It could have been faked, even if the Apollo astronauts really did actually walk on the surface of the Moon.
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when Apollo mission was going to start up(I was the technical assistant for Mr. martin in the main department of training)that time i was just thinking how strange feeling it was,as you are seeing the moon as your destination to which Within sometime our men will reach to make a history!REALLY IT IS JUST AN AMAZING FEELING WHICH I CANNOT EXP[LAIN!
yes those where the golden days for America as Neil succeeded in his mission, i still remember those radio claps from NASA space centre on winning of mission.
Yeah, these images are great and how beautiful Earth looks from the moon. Such a great sight. With it the lesson you gave was even more beautiful. It's true that as we're advancing, we're actually getting lazy and we're not creating the desire to learn more and become better. Try to find out more about the nature and other fields.
I supposed the Mars mission would get similar yet different publicity. It´s going to be the next big thing in space travel and a giant leap to modern mankind.