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After Witnessing The Moon Landings Broadcast On Television As A Youngster I Have Been Utterly Intrigued By Space Exploration And There Is A Whole Lot More Of The Universe Still To Be Interpreted
As a youngster I recollect being allowed to stay up very late one evening with my father and watch on an old black and white TV as Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong made history by taking those first few steps on the surface. The preamble prior to the moon landing and the frequent news stories about the ongoing ‘Space Race’ between the Americans and the Russians made a massive impression on me when I was a child and in fact I am still fascinated by space and space travel. I make no claim to be an expert about any of it, but the thought of a universe so massive that we can’t even start to imagine its size is very humbling. We humans really are incredibly insignificant animals when compared to everything else that exists.
Mankind has been gazing at the skies since before recorded history. Many ancient civilisations came up with rites and traditions dictated by the movements of the stars and planets, and even in this day and age our lives are affected by the sun and the moon a lot more than we probably realise. Over the centuries, humans must have gazed up at the skies and debated what those other planets were like. In fact, there is a whole industry that has grown up around the idea of life in other solar systems – aliens, little green men, unidentified flying objects, the entire science fiction genre of movies and literature, unlikely weapons with light streaming from a Laser eye – would any of these notions exist if there were no distant planets visible for them to supposedly come from?
With massive advances in technology over the last hundred years, the wish to head out into space and see other planets slowly changed from a dream to a potential reality and the Cold War competitiveness between the USA and the USSR fuelled the relatively speedy development of equipment which could travel further than the earth’s atmosphere. The V2 rocket, built by the Germans had become the first man-made object which could be launched into space without technical problems, and soon after the end of the Second World War, when both America and the Soviets had gained knowledge of the technology, initial development work was aimed at using the knowledge for methods of warfare. But as soon as the Russians succeeded in sending a human into space in 1961, the Americans immediately decided to move ahead with their own plan for manned space exploration.
The very first American to be launched into space did so only one month behind Yuri Gagarin and from that moment onwards, both countries began to look to the moon as their target for exploration. In the 1960’s unmanned crafts were launched to go to the moon and sent back data about its surface, and the Russians also successfully sent an unmanned craft into orbit around the moon, which provided the very first images of the far side of the moon.
Not many years later, the USA launched the very first manned spacecraft intended to fly to the moon. Apollo 8, launched in 1968, orbited the moon and came back safely to earth. It’s amazing to think that it was just the following year when Apollo 11 fulfilled the human dream of safely setting down on the moon in order that two people could actually walk about on its surface. It’s an even more amazing feat when you know that the entire journey to the moon and back again was achieved with less computer capability than my home PC, a games console, Laser eye surgery equipment or a lot of mobile phones!
Apollo 11 is one of the first proper news stories that I can recollect being aware of, largely I suppose because it got so much coverage, but I was utterly fascinated by it all and have carried on taking an interest in space related achievements to this very day. But it’s a sad demonstration of the media’s authority over what is treated as news, that just two launches later, Apollo 13 was only considered newsworthy when things went wrong.
Experience gained from the disaster (and ultimate triumph) of Apollo 13, together with the cost of the space programme led to a gradual reduction in manned space flights, and the final man to walk on the moon did so in 1972. Since then, of course, numerous unmanned craft have been launched into space by a number of nations and the International Space Station is orbiting the earth right now, and is clearly visible if you are in the right place at the right time – a glare of light crossing the sky as if sent out from a Laser eye beam.
As science and technology develop further still (just think how far we’ve come in the past century – from the Ford Model T to the Bugatti Veyron, bi-planes to supersonic jets, fountain pens to computers, monocles to Laser eye surgery – the list goes on and on), mankind will continue to send spacecrafts further and further into the deepest points of the universe and in the future will probably come across numerous things which are far beyond our imagination at the moment. But I know for sure that ever since that late night when I saw Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, I will forever be fascinated by the latest discoveries about the universe.