How serendipitous! Moon Day on Monday!
How serendipitous! Moon Day on Monday! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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July 20th National Moon Day |
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At 10:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle, placed his left foot on the surface of the Moon, and said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He later said he had intended to say "one small step for a man" — the indefinite article that would have made the grammatical contrast with "mankind" precise — but that the word was either lost in transmission or swallowed in the moment. The ambiguity hardly mattered. An estimated 600 million people were watching on television around the world, a number representing roughly one fifth of the human population at the time, and the meaning was clear enough without the article. A human being was standing on the Moon. The thing that had been dreamed about, written about, looked at across 238,855 miles of space for the entirety of human history, had been reached.
National Moon Day on July 20th commemorates that landing — and the broader story of how a species that had not yet developed powered flight in 1903 landed on another world just 66 years later. The Apollo program was an achievement of engineering, political will, human courage, and scientific knowledge operating simultaneously at the very edge of what was possible. Understanding how it happened makes the fact of it more astonishing, not less. The Moon landing is the most remarkable thing humans have ever done. July 20th is the day to remember what it took.
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