In the Beginning

There was light, and all of humankind saw the light fall on the face of the earth from space for the first time - our small blue jewel of a planet  revolving in the ink of space. Humanity looked at themselves through the eyes and cameras of three men, hurtling through the vacuum, alone but carrying every nation with them. The awesome responsibility, and the humbling realisation of the true meaning of SPACE - the gaps between things, the distance between people, the nothingness that  fills up all of this that we see - it has never been better demonstrated and it could never have been entrusted to a more extraordinary group of people.

I doubt that the world will ever be the same in my lifetime and I am so envious of everyone who saw the events all those years ago. The world; since the first time the earth was seen as a whole, has expanded and grown and the Space between us all has increased. In spite of all the technology that brings us together, we have never been more far apart.

But, for a few moment in 1969, the world looked up at the moon, as generations have before, and instead of dreaming of what the moon might hold, the world looked up and for the first time some one looked back.

Rest in peace Neil Armstrong - the world owes you a debt that we may never be able to repay.