A day late…but July 20, 1969 was the Lunar Landing, the day man first landed on the surface of the moon in a little space capsule named Apollo 11. It is hard to imagine how little we knew back then and how rudimentary our tools were. Much of the landing was done with computers but not the computers you and I know today. It all seems so long ago and looking back, so very impossible. I can remember our hearts being in our throats the entire time. Would they make it back alive?
How terribly sad that our Manned space program is all but ending. Ironic that the last space shuttle is almost ready to return to earth, never to slip into the wild blue yonder again. Wallops Island is no Kennedy Space Center. That is a downgrade I don’t even want to consider.
Have we become so complacent or so full of our own knowledge that we can just quit? I think America deserves better. We are better than this.
