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Ever Since Seeing The Moon Landings On Television As A Youngster I Have Been Completely Enthralled By Space Exploration And There Is Much Much More Of The Universe Still To Be Deciphered
As a child I can recall being encouraged to sit up very late one evening with my parents and watch on an ancient black and white TV as Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong made history by taking those first few steps on the surface. The build-up prior to the moon landing and the frequent news stories about the aptly named ‘Space Race’ between the Americans and the Russians made a huge impression on me as a small child and even now I am still fascinated by space and space travel. I make no claim to be highly intellectual about any of it, but the notion of a universe so huge that we can’t even begin to imagine its size is very humbling. Humans really are the most insignificant creatures when measured against everything else that exists.
Humanity has been mesmerised by the skies since prehistoric times. Many ancient civilisations came up with rites and traditions influenced by the movements of the stars and planets, and even in the 21st Century our activities are affected by the sun and the moon much more than we probably recognise. Over thousands and thousands of years, humans must have looked up at the skies and wondered what those other planets were like. In fact, there is a complete industry that has been built on the notion of life on other planets – aliens, little green men, unidentified flying objects, the whole science fiction genre of movies and books, impossible weapons with light pouring from a Laser eye – would any of these concepts exist if there was nothing else in the sky for them to supposedly hail from?
With huge advances in technology in the last few decades, the longing to head out into space and go to other planets slowly changed from a dream to a potential reality and the Cold War competition between the USA and the USSR led to the comparatively rapid production of machinery which could travel outside the earth’s atmosphere. The V2 rocket, created by the Germans had become the first man-made object which could travel into space without any problems, and after the end of the Second World War, when both the United States and Russia had gained details of the technology, their first development work continued to use the knowledge for weapons. But as soon as the Russians achieved their aim of sending a human into space in 1961, the Americans immediately made the decision to progress with their own plan for manned space exploration.
The very first American to travel into space did so just one month behind Yuri Gagarin and from then onwards, both countries began to consider the moon as their target for exploration. During the 1960’s robot crafts were landed on the moon and sent back information about its surface, and the Russians also successfully navigated an unmanned craft into orbit around the moon, which sent back the earliest images of the dark side of the moon.
In a short number of years, the USA launched the very first manned spacecraft intended to fly to the moon. Apollo 8, launched in 1968, orbited the moon and came back safely to earth. It’s mindblowing to take into account that it was just the following year when Apollo 11 fulfilled the human dream of safely landing on the moon so that two people could actually walk about on its surface. It’s an even more incredible feat when you realise that the whole trip to the moon and back was achieved with less computer capability than my home PC, a games console, Laser eye surgery equipment or many mobile phones!
Apollo 11 is one of the first actual news stories that I can recollect being aware of, particularly I suppose because it got so much attention, but I was utterly fascinated by the concept and have continued to take an interest in space related developments to this very day. But it’s a sad indication of the media’s manipulation of what is thought of as news, that just two moon trips later, Apollo 13 was only treated as newsworthy when events took a turn for the worse.
Experience gained from the disaster (and ultimate triumph) of Apollo 13, together with the expense of the space programme led to a slow wind-down of manned space flights, and the final man to visit the moon did so in 1972. Since then, of course, countless unmanned craft have been sent into space by a number of counties and the International Space Station is orbiting the earth right now, and is very visible if you are located in the right place at the right time – a flash of light travelling across the sky as if shot from a Laser eye beam.
As science and technology advance (just think how far we’ve come in the last century – from the Ford Model T to the Bugatti Veyron, bi-planes to supersonic jets, fountain pens to computers, monocles to Laser eye surgery – the list goes on and on), humans will continue to send spacecrafts further and further into the deepest points of the universe and in the future will no doubt come across countless things which are far beyond our imagination at the moment. But I can definitely say that ever since that late night when I saw Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, I will continue to be intrigued by the latest discoveries about the universe.
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