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RIP Neil Armstrong


The television image was grainy, fuzzy. His voice crackled and sputtered as it made its way over hundreds of thousands of miles. Looking back, it can seem anti-climactic - just a guy going down a ladder. But how my heart leapt into my eight-year-old throat when his foot came down and touched the surface: the first human being to arrive elsewhere. It changed me, it changed my life. It changed so many lives. It changed...the world. We weren't earthbound anymore. For a brief time, we ventured away from our little blue jewel. Only baby steps, but humanity took them. We took them, and for a time, it seemed inevitable that we would take another, and another, and another. One day, we would grow up, leave the nest, make our way in the wider cosmos. And now I wonder, will we ever go out our front door again?





*wipes away tears*

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2012 02:14 am (UTC)
shirebound: (Autumn - Annwyn55)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
the first human being to arrive... elsewhere

So true, and so perfect. I fervently hope we will walk elsewhere again. And again.

Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serai1.livejournal.com
So do I, but I'm afraid it will take a mighty big change.

Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elderberrywine.livejournal.com
Sigh. Our TV had been slowly giving up the ghost, but my father went out and bought a new one just for that, when we didn't have a lot of money to spare.

Damn. We used to dream big, didn't we?

Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 08:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serai1.livejournal.com
We did, my friend. We did indeed.

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