Lift Off!

Kona, the dog, ate my glasses a while ago, and that seems as good an explanation as any to the absence of writing. Coupled with the dreaded writers block, the current state of affairs which I’m not even going to comment on, and what the heck – general laziness.

There’s a lot of crazy going on in the world, and if you watch the news it is enough to make you wish you were on Space X’s Crew Dragon, heading up to the ISS for one to four months.

And that is where we are. Something that brings a smile back of right when it was needed. A manned US rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral Florida from the same launchpad once used by Apollo and Space Shuttle astronauts.

Growing up in the ‘60’s the space program was huge, it’s strides in a short period of time were fantastic, overcoming hurdles that at the time seemed nearly insurmountable.

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.

An excerpt from President Kennedy’s speech in September 1962. Travel to the moon was a daring choice. Christmas Eve, 1968 only 6 years later Apollo 8 circled the moon. July 20, 1969 only 7 months later Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

We did it and the whole world was watching.

I don’t know if the whole world was watching Saturday, but I was. I hope you were too and that it bought a smile to your face as well.

Happy Beginning of Summer