Earthlings

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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!

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.

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.

Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_on_the_Moon

Take care, thanks for your time.

Helios.