Marks

The moon lay untouched by living beings for billions of years. To me, it seems pretty significant that we've set foot up there. We've gone to an object in space other than our own. While today that may seem like a rather short hop, it was only 50 years ago that it was a major ordeal. Only 50.

Let me put that into perspective: recorded human history roughly extends about 10,000 years. We made progress at an incredible pace in the 20th century.

And isn't amazing that all that progress is summed up in a photograph of one footprint?