One Small Step

Fifty years ago, at four in the morning, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon.

On the Moon!

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Three men rode the biggest bomb ever constructed into space. One of them (Michael Collins) sat in a tin can flying through the void at thousands of miles an hour while the other two performed a controlled crash onto a big rock with no air, no life, no nothing.

They survived. They brought bits of it home. In 1969 Apollo 11 finally did what humans had been dreaming of doing since Cicero and Lucian.

It was a giant leap. But we haven’t leapt any further, at least not ourselves. High time we changed that.

One small step…