WE WENT TO THE MOON!!!!

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I just saw Ron Howard’s film, In The Shadow Of the Moon   -  amazing, absolutely amazing!

A documentary using NASA footage, and contemporary interviews with the astronauts who actually went.  It’s been so long since the Apollo Missions ended that it’s easy to forget the towering achievement.  I just forgot that we sent 7 missions to the moon, and 6 times actually landed.

Now it’s been over 30 years since we achieved the greatest technological feats in history, and sad to realize that we have slid backward ever since.  (OK, so we now have plasma TVs and Humvees, but why hasn’t man walked on Mars?)

How much of the tech that we enjoy today was driven by the developmental needs of NASA?  Why haven’t we carried on?  - - Well, I think the only reason we ever went was the inspirational leadership of JFK (and I don’t want to make this blog political, but maybe its time for inspirational leadership again).

If you have forgotten, or maybe never known, of the courage, resourcefulness, drive, intelligence that went into the Moon landings, if you are unaware of the way it brought humanity together – then go rent Ron Howard’s documentary.  It's a really enjoyable look into an incredible past, and something of a wake-up call.