by John Carter

Created on: July 16, 2009

I had just arrived at Quechee Gorge on US Rt. 4 in Vermont where we stopped to have lunch and do some shopping. The car radio was full of coverage about the moon landing. After lunch my wife went poking into a store that sold yardgoods, and I went wandering into some of the other shops. The last shop I visited was a gift shop where they had a television set turned onto the moon landing. It hadn't happened yet, but was about too. I stayed in the giftshop while the moon lander landed on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin announced that the Eagle had Landed. After that I left the store and walked over to the bridge crossing the gorge to where I could see into the depths of the gorge, and comtemplated what had just happened, and how it changed everything. There have only been a select few who ever visited the Moon since.

Forty years have passed since these events occurred that seems to have happened just yesterday. Man's future belongs in space for no other reason that mankind could be wiped out in a cosmic disaster as the dinosaurs were over sixty million years ago. By going into space mankind would be able to avoid the kind of event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The humans that were on a different planet would survive the fate of the dinosaurs. Mankind must go into space because we are running out of living space here on Earth.

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