Apollo11.....40 years later

Apollo11.....40 years later

As long as mankind has existed there has always been within the confines of or minds, a deep seeded need for exploration.

Is there more to the world then what we see? What lies beyond the next horizon?

Hundreds of years ago mankind believed that the world was flat, and when someone would stand alongside the seashore watching a ship sailing away they assumed that if it went far enough , it would simply sail right over the edge of the world. they came to this conclusion after witnessing a ship sailing beyond the horizon and out of sight.

and yet the need for exploration continued.

Explorer's spent their lives traveling the glob over mountains, forest, deserts, and even beyond the vast reaches of the ocean, in pursuit of something new, something no one else had ever seen before.

Finally after hundreds of years of exploration it seemed that the last great unexplored frontier remaining was space.

At some point in there life, everyone who has ever looked up at the stars at night has wondered what it would be like to step foot on the surface of another planet.
at the end of the second world war there was a technological boom, computers were getting faster and faster with every passing year.

Then on October 4th 1957 something happened that triggered suspicion and speculation from around the world.

It was the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's first low altitude satellite. At the time many believed this to be some kind of new weapon, keep in mind this was during the cold war and world tensions were pretty high.

The United States and Soviet Russia were the two great power at the time and it was the launch of Sputnik that triggered the space race with both countries vowing to be the first to put a man in space.

In 1961 came president John F Kennedy's historic speech to congress and the united nations, were he stated.........

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth"

Then on July 16th 1969 Apollo 11 was launched,this was the third maned mission to the Moon.

On July 20th 1969 commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Edwin "Buzz" Alden, became the first humans to step foot on the surface of another planet.....It was at this time Neil said those iconic words...

"That's one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind"

With the completion of the Apollo 11 mission, president Kennedy had keeped his promise of putting a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960's.

Back in the 1960's many people believed that by the year 2000 we would be living in space, in part that notion is correct, because there are a hand full of people living on the international space station right now.


It was the public's fascination with space travel that led to the popularity of shows like The Jetsons, Star Trek and Lost in Space.

Now here we are in 2009, exactly 40 years to the day, since the first maned trip to the surface of the moon.


and well civilian space travel dose exist short of being a millionaire, the average person will never get the chance to experience a trip to space.

and short of a revolutionary discovery in the creation of a sustainable zero point energy generator it doesn't look like were going to be seeing a personal flying car anytime soon either.....bummer i would love to own a flying car!!!

But all and all 40 years of space exploration is an extraordinary achievement,.....i wonder what the next 40 years will bring???