Just watched a documentary about Apollo 11

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

America triumphed over every adversity, chellenged every hurdle. It was so emotional. To those heroes who made that amazing flight - you have my awe.

 

[fla4fun]

I like watching documentaries about the early space program. I have always thought those early astronauts were incredibly brave, since there wasn’t any proof that it could be done. I still enjoy launches to this day, especially now that I am in Florida and can watch from my house.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr

 

[fla4fun]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr

I can’t read that without recalling when President Reagan used part of it as a tribute to the Challenger astronauts.