As the dark grey panel of the door folded outward toward the dark vacuum, the white shadow of a man perched on the top step of the ladder. As he slowly descended toward the chalky grey surface, the whole world was watching. As the entire world sucked in its breath, as the tension and the intensity of the moment began to build, the famous, everlasting words of Neil Armstrong would create an era of fevered space exploration and excitement that will be unparalleled in the century to come. As moon missions became an almost routine event through the Apollo missions, this fevered excitement began to decay until the Apollo missions were terminated and funding for space exploration became almost non-existent. It is now our generation's turn to rekindled the burning embers of our everlasting adventurous instincts to turn the next small step for man, into the next great leap into the future.
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I do not want to remember those launch pads that sent us to the Moon the way they are today. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be.” He expresses his deep emotional attachment to American Space Program and his disappointment in the lack of motivation to go out to space and risk and dream things that have never been dreamed before. As Captain Gene Cernan put it, “The dreamers of today are the doers of tomorrow”
I do not want to remember those launch pads that sent us to the Moon the way they are today. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be.” He expresses his deep emotional attachment to American Space Program and his disappointment in the lack of motivation to go out to space and risk and dream things that have never been dreamed before. As Captain Gene Cernan put it, “The dreamers of today are the doers of tomorrow”