36 Years Ago

July 20, 1969

It almost seems like yesterday.

On this day in 1969 the world was glued to the television watching fuzzy black and white pictures as Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin landed the LEM on the moon while Michael Collins flew orbits around it in the Apollo command/service module.

It’s sad that today we barely have the ability to launch men into orbit and NASA has no way to replace the ageing shuttles in the near future and no plans to produce a rocket with the ability to leave earth orbit with men on board—possibly ever.

Even sadder is that the official NASA Website doesn’t even mention the event's anniversary.

So much for the heady predictions of Arthur C. Clark’s 2001 A Space Odyssey.

I’m almost embarrassed…