Forty-two years ago today, Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. I believe our family watched the event on a television my dad built from a kit - the same TV with which we saw all three seasons of Star Trek. This month also marks the final voyage of the space shuttle program. For the first time in my life, the United States has no way of reaching space. After this, the remaining orbiters will go on display. The Endeavor will be in Los Angeles, the Enterprise in New York, and Discovery will be in Washington D.C. The Atlantis, the last of the shuttles to orbit Earth, will rest in Florida. Maybe we’ll be able to visit the next time we’re there. You know, when I was a kid watching The Jetsons on Saturday mornings, I thought by now I’d be living on the moon. Surely I’d at least vacation there from time to time, right?
I feel the same way.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying for two years to get to Oslo and Rome. Both of them are 1,000 miles from my front door; roughly twice the distance from Salt Lake to Denver. You'd think I was trying to book passage to the moon. Maybe it really isn't a small world after all.
ReplyDelete