To the Moon
Yesterday, I watched the latest Top Gear. The last piece of the episode is James May playing with NASA's new Moon buggy.
The buggy is amazing and really cool, but the entire piece is so unbelievably sad. It is full of clips of the original buggy running around in the Moon, as well as a shot of the last ever take off from the Moon.
That there, running around in other planets, that is what I've always wanted to do, since I can remember. It's so very close (we've been there before, after all), but with all the funding cuts and program cancellations, it's so very far. I know that one day, given half a chance, we will go back, but I want to go back now. I want to send people to the Moon, and beyond. And knowing that we have done it, but now we don't, it breaks my heart.
This morning, I said hello to the little Mars Rover my company owns, Indy, and it made me feel better. A little closer.
The buggy is amazing and really cool, but the entire piece is so unbelievably sad. It is full of clips of the original buggy running around in the Moon, as well as a shot of the last ever take off from the Moon.
That there, running around in other planets, that is what I've always wanted to do, since I can remember. It's so very close (we've been there before, after all), but with all the funding cuts and program cancellations, it's so very far. I know that one day, given half a chance, we will go back, but I want to go back now. I want to send people to the Moon, and beyond. And knowing that we have done it, but now we don't, it breaks my heart.
This morning, I said hello to the little Mars Rover my company owns, Indy, and it made me feel better. A little closer.