Walking on the moon
Monday, April 7th, 2008Walking on the moon
In July 1969, a tiny craft of lightweight steel, electric wires and electronic circuit boards approached the moon. Inside were three men, hearts pounding as they started on the complicated processes involved in descent and, hopefully, the first ever landing on the moon. Distracted for an instant from their perennial worries, strife and diversions, a world full of people watched in frozen suspension; billions of eyes and ears following every move of three lonely individuals. If it failed, the moon would become their grave, the world a witness to their deaths. If it succeeded, they would become the greatest navigators and explorers of all time, obliterating the proud records of the discoverers who came before.
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