Mastodawn

An early, but still vivid, formative memory of mine was watching the noisy, black & white video of the Apollo 11 mission. It was partly responsible for my enduring sense of awe and possibility, and probably the moment I knew I had to be a scientist or engineer.

Our world is going to hell in many ways, to be sure, but we're going to the moon again today, and I can't help but get excited about that.

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@mattblaze

Today's mission is only a flyby, but it is something nonetheless. I was born in 1981, which means the last Moon mission was nine years before I was born.

I don’t like that technology — and especially space travel — hasn’t progressed much. We went from horse-and-carriage rides to cars, to planes, to the Moon in record time. Then we kind of slowed down. Not even going to the moon for 54 years.

I am hoping for progressive and rapid development.