Apollo 11: The 50th Anniversary Is Finally Here!
I'm headed to Space Center Houston today to hear my dad talk about the launch. 50 years ago today, 9:32 ET, Apollo 11 blasted off from Launch Pad 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
I encourage you to relive space history this week in your own way, whether it's attending an event or finding something online.
As a matter of fact, this is one of the most fascinating websites I've found to do so. You can see and hear history unfold in real time: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
50 years. I set my first novel fifty years from today, so we are now at the halfway point between space history and my own space fiction. It has me wondering what life will be like in fifty years. May God grant us the great to make this place happier and healthier than it is today. I'm reminded of JFK's words spoken at Rice University in 1962: "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
Where will we choose to go next? How can we best use our energies and skills? What are we unwilling to postpone any longer? Tully Harper heard the words, "Go, and do not delay," whispered to him in a dream. This (and a vision) encourages him to sneak into space, and I hope you'll find encouragement to be bold and do something daring in your own life this week, too. After all, sneaking into space isn't nearly as hard as he makes it look. See below.... :)
Love and rockets,
Adam
Other links:
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm JFK's speech
https://spacecenter.org/ Space Center Houston website for events
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/ Kennedy Space Center website for events, resources
https://spacecenter.org/apollo-50/apollo-anniversary-celebration/
I encourage you to relive space history this week in your own way, whether it's attending an event or finding something online.
As a matter of fact, this is one of the most fascinating websites I've found to do so. You can see and hear history unfold in real time: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
50 years. I set my first novel fifty years from today, so we are now at the halfway point between space history and my own space fiction. It has me wondering what life will be like in fifty years. May God grant us the great to make this place happier and healthier than it is today. I'm reminded of JFK's words spoken at Rice University in 1962: "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
Where will we choose to go next? How can we best use our energies and skills? What are we unwilling to postpone any longer? Tully Harper heard the words, "Go, and do not delay," whispered to him in a dream. This (and a vision) encourages him to sneak into space, and I hope you'll find encouragement to be bold and do something daring in your own life this week, too. After all, sneaking into space isn't nearly as hard as he makes it look. See below.... :)
Love and rockets,
Adam
Other links:
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm JFK's speech
https://spacecenter.org/ Space Center Houston website for events
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/ Kennedy Space Center website for events, resources
https://spacecenter.org/apollo-50/apollo-anniversary-celebration/
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