Forty years ago today man walked on the moon

Kamál (Perfection), 8 Kalimát (Words), 166 BE – Monday, July 20, 2009 about 6:25 AM Pacific Time

On July 20, 1969, an astronaut left size 91/2 footprints on the moon. I remember watching the moon land on T.V. I remember holding my breath as Astronaut Neil Armstrong descended the lunar module and stepped upon the moon. When Mr. Armstrong placed his foot on the lunar surface, I breathed again.

I remember hearing Neil Armstrong say "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." I remember crying because my world and the world of everyone had changed that day. The world changed because it became smaller, we (humanity) had gone to the moon. A human being had left is footprints on the moon.

I am now 62 it is forty years later. I am living on a planet in the middle of transformation. I am living in a world that sees the moon landing as an achievement for humanity and not simply as an achievement for the United States, the nation that provided the technology.

Astronauts made it to the moon safely and returned home safely. Humanity will make it through the present crisis, we just have to have faith.

The 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11

July 20, 1969, forty years and another century ago a man left a human footprint on the moon. I remember seeing a picture of the Earth from the Moon. There were no human created boundaries marring the surface of the Earth. There were mountains, rivers, oceans and clouds. Earth was a beautiful blue-green planet, with white clouds, white snow peaked mountains and brown deserts. When I saw that picture of the Earth from the moon, I became a citizen of Earth and not just a citizen of a single country on the planet Earth.

I don't know if the photo of the Earth from the moon was taken at the same time as the Lunar Landing. I know I always associate the picture and the Lunar Landing in my mind. That's one of the interesting things about memory, each person remembers the same event in different way because we each see each event we witness from a personal point of view.

July 20, 1969 at 4:18 P.M. EDT, two men walked on the moon. Two human beings left human footprints on Luna and the world became smaller. The Lunar Landing changed the way many of my generation saw the world. As we watched the landing on television, our concepts of Earth and humanity expanded.