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Never! We landed on the moon!
Fifty years ago (July 21, 1969), man first set foot on a celestial body outside of us. When they landed, little did they know that the lunar module could sink endlessly into dust, off-axis or worse, or that it could not roll back explorers who risked their lives to cross the borders we know. Little did they know that a good engine would build pressure and the engine itself would explode. They didn't know much more than us. But they knew one thing: this moment was as important as any other. From John F. Kennedy: “But let me tell you, my countrymen, we are going to send a new giant metal rocket 240,000 miles from the Houston control station, to a height of 300 meters, the length of this football field. Some have yet to be invented, and alloys that can withstand loads and are more accurate than the best watches. They carry all the necessary equipment for propulsion, steering, control, communication, power, to enter the atmosphere at over 25,000 miles per hour, calling about twice the temperature of the sun - almost like now – and do it all, do it well and be the first to do it by the end of this decade – then we have to be bold. done with the same processing power. Your cell phone. And they succeeded. They helped and controlled the explosion, which pushed us to a place where no one had gone before.
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When the three astronauts first flew around the Moon, they were stuck in the CM, hovering over rocky surfaces reflecting the soft gray glow of the stars. They were isolated on the dark side in the light, in the empty sky and on the other side of the moon. As they continued on their way - through small windows that gave them visual access to space - they saw our Earth rising into the sky in a moon-like shadow. This blue ball flew through space and took with it all the lives we know. This sphere of protection is where a miracle must take place in order to create the ideal environment for the production of something that we cannot understand, despite our religious beliefs.
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We slid to the ground, learned to walk and talk, started a fire. We have learned to understand and to philosophize, to try to understand who we are, who we are, why we are. We have learned to love. We are aware of our death. Once again we have waged wars in this world. We used the science that could destroy it. Everything that happens there.
In all the deserts and beaches in the world, you can see 10 times more stars than sand. As far as we know, what we see is only a part of the existing universe. Yet it is the only place where a life is known to have been saved ( there are many reasons for this ), the life of all the generations that lead us, and of all our children, and their children, and not only.
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We spent billions of dollars and millions of hours together to get out of this place (for every hour the Apollo 11 astronauts spent in space, Americans collectively worked a million hours). Why? Well, it's in our nature to explore, discover, learn and improve. Although this may seem like an insult to many people, it is a good explanation.
There are political explanations, and it is true that the United States lags behind the Soviet Union in almost every other area of spaceflight . Constantly frustrated before giving way only to the Russians, Congress initially took great pleasure in supporting the lunar mission. But over time, even this passion hardly turned into reluctance, as concerns about the land questioned their importance. These political reasons still exist today, as China recently expanded its capabilities by deploying lunar rovers on the far side of the Moon and planning manned missions in the coming years ; and in the United States, of course, there is the Artemis program , a long-term goal for Mars and beyond. I'm not talking about the many other places that send people into space. But politics is a ripple with every administration, every new threat or enthusiastic project, and cannot be considered a permanent force that propels us to the stars.
There are commercial explanations. There are currently at least four companies in the United States that could get people out of our delicate atmosphere by the end of the next decade: Space X , Boeing , Blue Origin , and Sierra Nevada ; Not to mention the companies involved in suborbital flights, such as the space company . Our launch capabilities are growing. We're designing space stations and crews, providing gateways and lunar habitats, and finally doing what we've been waiting for as hundreds of millions of people watch us take our first step on the moon.
Are these excuses enough? The reality to me is that you have to go out to honestly look within. To understand how fragile we are, to better understand our mortality and our psychology, we have to go beyond ourselves and see the miracle that is happening. At some point, we may have to transform into a good or bad celestial society.
We are destroying our world at a breakneck pace. Climate change is real , and whether you attribute it to human activity (unnecessarily) or not, the reality is that our climate is changing with or without us. As more and more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere, we are destroying more and more forests, which can help reduce some of these harmful effects , such as higher carbon emissions . We are warming what was once the tundra and emitting more greenhouse gases into the environment. We used to melt polar ice that reflects the sun's heat, but now it's being absorbed by dark oceans.
Although the extent to which this remains a current research problem, there is evidence that insect populations worldwide are in decline . The number of bees, the pollinators of life, is drastically reduced . At the same time , the oceans of the habitat are destroyed and cause a spasmodic effect in the food chain.
It wraps everything we send to plastic stores or the post office where all our products are and makes up the majority of our cheap toys and playthings and we throw them away as soon as we get them polluting our water and we will continue to pollute. Water and mitigation methods have largely failed over the centuries. Today we find a significant amount of plastic in most sea fish, and it only reaches us through the food chain. The health risks are unlikely to be fully understood.
Water itself is wasted in many areas to satisfy our cravings for certain plants that require more water and cause much more water pollution . Finally, it leads to the desertification of a once thriving environment, which in turn leads to further loss of trees and habitats, leaving vast areas barren.
Our population continues to grow at an explosive rate and we are using the Earth's resources at an alarming rate. The more intelligent we become, the more ignorant we become. We somehow manage to focus on the short term and rarely consider the long term implications of our science and our humanity. We have forgotten why we chose to look within in the first place. And we have to go back.
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Everyone remembers when Kennedy said, “We decided to go to the moon. In this decade we decided to go to the moon and do other things, not because it's easy, but because it's hard, because that goal will serve the organization and measure our strengths and our abilities, because we are ready to finish this task, the one we do not want to push, the one we seek to overcome, and others. But the speech is full of today's truths, of beliefs that live beyond the time these words were spoken. Please read everything .
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I'm a rocket scientist specializing in human research. I'm proud to be alone. I think it is the need of our humanity. I'm not trying to exaggerate my breasts or exaggerate their importance; If it wasn't for me, then there would be someone else. And while I think it's a necessity for humanity, it's not necessarily necessary anymore, it's just a piece of the puzzle (an important piece worth funding, but not a solution).
Fifty years ago we landed on the moon and the world was inspired. We thought we could take anything we gave each other in a short breath, that we could become together, that we could be more than we are. It was "one small step for man, one giant leap for humanity". These words are true today, and even though a lot of time has passed, it is important that we continue our efforts in space exploration, human and non-human exploration, and in all other sciences. It is important to go out and look inside when you go out. We face many problems such as society, the human race and the world. If we want to prosper and prosper, if we want to be the best, if we don't want to come to church without being exposed for a long time, in addition to destroying what was once the greatest miracle known to mankind, we must be bolder. .
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