Tuesday, July 14, 2009

One Small Step Revisited

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the event is being commemorated in a number of different ways. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has come out with a very cool website called We Choose the Moon (created by our good friends at Domani Studios) that will recreate the entire mission in real time. Today, the NY Times had a dedicated section to Apollo 11 which includes a great reminiscence by John Noble Wilford as well as comments from numerous celebrities from a variety of fields about what landing on the moon meant to them.

Each generation has its own defining moments, whether triumphant or tragic; events that cause you to remember what you were doing when you heard the news that...fill in the blank. For those of us lucky to have been alive at the time, landing on the moon was just such a moment. Fuzzy as those television images of Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface were, it was an unforgettable event. And to think, the Apollo 11 crew had at their disposal computing power that was probably not much more than today's Blackberries!