Apollo 11 - Another adventure needed

When I was young (around 4 years after the first landing on the moon), I was looking (not reading yet) at images of my brother book about Apollo 11. The book was mysterious, why go to the moon, why made a book about it? Sure it was interesting, kid loves rocket, I did make some adventure in my mind while building some rocket in Lego. But at age 4 (1974), I think people have been going to the moon for some times now, there was no real excitation about it. I mean I was too young to see the challenge to send men to the moon.

Now at 39, I think very different, looking back at the enormous challenge, the problems, the unexpected hardware to be created, invented. Now I see that it was a miracle of the human engineering mind.

Today, the situation is different, we have the orbital station, an economic crisis, environmental problems, the Internet, the IPhone and all the neat electronic stuff supposed to help us in the daily routine. But we miss something inside our heart and soul, we miss the adventure. We need to accomplish something great, something that change our view of life, something that push our limits a little bit further.

I hope that I and my kids will live to see another humanity adventure (to Mars or beyond).

François