APOLLO MOON LANDING 40TH ANNIVERSARY!

Walter Cronkite covering a favorite topic!

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins & Buzz Aldrin:

The Crew of Apollo 11!

July 20, 1969

Forty years ago today, I was a little kid visiting my Grandmother, Aunt and Uncle in Royal Oak, Michigan. That night, we sat in front of the television set in my Grandmother's small home and listened to Walter Cronkite's coverage of man's first Moon landing! I was seated on the floor. President Kennedy's dream of placing an American on the Moon before the end of the 1960's was realized! Few events have held as much positive impact for America than what we experienced as a nation on July 20, 1969. A number of articles have been making their way through the newspapers over the past week asking what our "next step" in space might be.

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Years later, as a high school freshman, my Science class teacher told us that every 24-hours there is enough scientific research compiled to fill every square inch of our 30 seat classroom from the floor to the ceiling with stacks of two-sided single-spaced typed paper. We were in awe at his statement! This new information will advance us forward, he said, gradually until cures for diseases are discovered. With the same wide-eyed idealism of my youth, today I still believe this amazing fact will only be accelerated by the constructive focus of projects undertaken inside our International Space Station. We also require the design of a safer and better engineered rocket ship and propulsion system to replace our outdated Space Shuttle's. A Salute to the Crew of Apollo 11!