I’ve revisited a series of fiftieth and sixtieth anniversaries in this space lately—a reaction to my age, and the tectonic shifts that takes place in a boy’s life when he realizes that one day he’ll no longer be a boy … and one day, whether he knows it or not, certain events will define the very essence of who he is.
Today’s anniversary is the grandaddy of them all: July 20, 1969—an event so big that I couldn’t wait until the actual fiftieth anniversary to write about it.
Click/tap the “Moonshot” link to read my post from two years ago:
The moon landing was astounding- you are right – anything was possible – let us remember that as we look forward to see the (yet to come) wonders of the world.
David, thank you and all of the extended Beedle family for the posts on the remembrance of these events. I can remember sitting up in front of the black and white TV waiting for the news from space and more specifically the surface of the moon. We mark our lives by many events – birth, marriage, graduation and death. But these are mostly personal and singular. The events at NASA, the rocket launches and the walk on the moon transcended that personal level by a big quantum leap. Today we can see in history’s window that the entire world was transfixed by it in the best of ways.
We need an event of this scope and importance to unite a seriously divided nation and by extension that of humanity. I hope there are more comments of this type especially since engineers are not the great interpreters of the human condition. We need leaders of all stripes to set a path for the next human endeavor that will unite us as a whole.