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I’ve been following the updates all week from We Choose The Moon. The website was set up by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and allows visitors to step back in time 40 years and follow the mission to the moon.

If I was alive 40 years ago and writing at this exact time, the mission was in Stage 7 – Apollo 11 performs 12 moon orbits before Lunar Module separation. The ship was 220,090.5 Nautical Miles from earth. In exactly 24 hours time, the Eagle would land on the moon while the world watched in awe.

I’m excited to think about it. It was a truly amazing accomplishment and one which still inspires today. The men who walked on the moon and the team behind them drove scientific achievement to new heights. If there were no human mark on the moon today, a lot of what we take for granted today would be impossible.

So, tomorrow evening when it gets dark why not go outside, look up at the night sky and lose yourself in the wonder and possibility of the moon and stars. Just leave earth behind and take a giant leap into the possibility the future holds.