Hello Readers
I hope this blog finds you well.
Here men
from the planet, Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969, AD. We came in
peace for all mankind.
-Lt- Neil
Armstrong
The trends are changing In the blogging
culture, in the beginning, when the blogs started at offices circulating to
inform the ongoing happenings at the workplace.
Today Google making it a World Wide Web site
and allowing users to present their thoughts in the form of informal journals
or a structured story illustrated with pictures I think is simply exceptional.
I have come across fantastic travel blogs,
and the latest addition in this segment is called as VLOG! Which is a video
log, which is a person taking you through and becoming your eyes for that
place?
What I am trying today is reversing the process I want to share my experience of a documentary which I watched recently
it is called "In the shadow of the moon."
Ok, let us begin:
Back here in the US John .F Kennedy, the then
president makes an indispensable speech in the Congress saying that the
Americans would land a man on the Moon in the next Decade!
There begins the NASA moon mission saga which
leads to the successful 6 moon landings, and those crews are the only till date
to go to deep space and land and walk an alien place doesn't it sound
fantastic!
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| Courtesy Google images |
The documentary describes the highs and the
lows of the entire mission, and what effort it takes to put people in space,
and remember this was not the silicon chip era where printed circuit boards
were at full speed, there were a lot of analogue computers, with which they
have achieved this goal.
The 3 men who made the impossible were, Neil
Alden Armstrong, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. (Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins)
In July 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar
Module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon and spent
two and a half hours outside the spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in
lunar orbit in the command and service module. When Armstrong stepped onto the
lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one
giant leap for mankind." Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. President
Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in
1978, and Armstrong and his former crewmates received a Congressional Gold
Medal in 2009. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong)
"I
believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to
waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
― Buzz
Aldrin
After a brief into the lives of the above
Astronauts, we see the lunar module training and the tragic Apollo 1 accident
when the 3 astronauts were charred to death to a spark triggered in a 100%
oxygen chamber, which is still regarded as one of the most tragic and worst
accidents in NASA's history.
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| Earth from the moon: Courtesy Google images |
After these lessons were learnt and finally,
the launch day arrived, and Apollo 11
with all the hopes of mankind soared in the skies, and the rest, as we
all know, is history.
I stop at that about the documentary the entire beauty of it is best enjoyed by watching it.
What I liked most about this feature is that
the real value of determination, patriotism and the willingness to achieve the
impossible is incredible.
We all need to follow and take these people
as examples in our lives and always be motivated, never tiring attitude, which
will finally help us lead a life with some meaning.
Please remember we are all fortunate to be
alive today and to live this moment now in peace, there are efforts of many
people behind your smile.
So make the most of our life and make the
best out of it and try to set examples like these brave astronauts who are the
only people till date to set foot on an unknown alien heavenly body!
"I really believe that if the political
leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say
100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important
border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced. The tiny
globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a
unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for similar
treatment. The Earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist
or communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or
envied."
― Michael Collins
Before I end here is the list of moonwalkers.
Twelve people have walked on the Moon, starting with Neil Armstrong and ending with Gene Cernan. All crewed lunar landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972 as part of the Apollo program.
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| Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_on_the_Moon |
Take care, thanks for your time.
Helios.
