YES, WE WERE THERE

Forty years ago, a human being walked on the surface of another heavenly body for the first time. 

When interviewed by Walter Cronkite, writer Robert Heinlein predicted that some day the human calendar would mark that day as YEAR ONE, assuming - as we all did - that civilization would continue. 

Meantime, NASA has provided us with a virtual tour of the Tranquility Landing Site, where those first extra-terrestrial footprints were made. 

Here is that LINK:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_landing/index.html

I do believe that our Creator wants this civilization to continue, without guaranteeing that outcome.  After all, we are trusted with freedom, the risk of failure and the gifts of reason creativity and conscience.  

I believe that future generations will mark off this site as a park and that it will be visited by thousands of space tourists.  

For the rest of us, the virtual tour will have to do for now.

Jay B. Gaskill
Earth 2009