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‘We came in peace for all mankind’
that of the human race.
As he took that first
“small step” and uttered
his now famous words
referring to mankind’s
giant leap, the moment
illustrated a couple of
program had in the
1960s.
Yet some 400,000
scientists, researchers
and engineers worked in
collaboration and solved
what historians have
to the chalkboard and
drawing four bell-type
curves. He labeled them
Leadership, Threat,
Economy and Talent,
then said, “When you get
all these lined up, you
Fifty years ago this
can’t stop something re-
past Saturday, more than
ally big from happening.”
600 million people from
Fifty years ago, on July
From the Managing Editor’s Desk
around the world were
21, the Apollo 11 began
Ned Hickson
united in a common
its journey back to Earth,
experience: To watch as
leaving behind a plaque
the first humans set foot
on the surface of the
on the moon.
undeniable truths about called the “10,000 impos- moon that reads:
It was part of a journey our species.
sible questions” facing
Here men from the
that had begun eight
The first is that when
the mission.
planet Earth first set foot
years earlier, culminating we are at our best, the
Which brings me to
on the moon—July 1969
in a 76-hour, 200,000-
impossible becomes
the second undeniable
A.D.—We came in peace
mile trek to reach the
possible.
truth about mankind:
for all mankind.
farthest point that hu-
To truly appreciate the To live in peace together,
As we continue to re-
mans had ever touched
magnitude of obsta-
we must either be united flect on the 50th anniver-
within our universe.
cles that needed to be
in a common threat or
sary of achieving the im-
As Neil Armstrong
overcome in order to
common goal.
possible, we need to ask
opened the hatch of the
achieve the first moon
In 1972, after the
ourselves whether the
Apollo 11 lunar module
landing and safely return completion of the final
next small step we take
at 10:39 p.m. on July 20
astronauts Buzz Aldrin,
mission in the Apollo
will unite us through
and began descending
Michael Collins and
program, about 30 NASA leadership, economy and
the ladder toward the
Armstrong, you only
leaders met for a few
talent — and if that unity
moon’s surface, it didn’t
have to look at the iP-
days at Caltech to review will be the fleeting kind
matter what language he hone in your pocket.
what had been accom-
created by a common
spoke or political party
Today, within that
plished and how they
threat, or a lasting peace
he belonged to — and
handheld device, you
had achieved the chal-
for all mankind that
the only race that mat-
wield more computer
lenge of the century.
comes through sharing a
tered as he created the
processing power than
Armstrong was the last common goal.
first lunar footprint was
the entire NASA space
to speak, walking quietly
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