There are some people who do not believe that such event ever happened. As in any other topic that involves a degree of complexity, there can be certain debate with the validity of the factual accounts, which in this case seems absolutely legitimate. I have myself attempted to evaluate all possible available facts, limited and sometimes unreliable, while leaving that very possibility open, but the truth seems to still converge to an actual moon landing. What people normally forget is the actual extend of the lunar program. The landing on the moon the 20th of July, 1969, was merely a culmination of all the minds and determination put behind the Mercury, Gemini and later Apollo program, from the first orbit rendezvous to the final testings of the Lunar Module on the actual moon’s orbit, in which it got as close as 15.6 km from the lunar surface in the Apollo 10 mission! The little knowledge about the Apollo 11 mission that is sometimes used to deny its very accomplishment is similar to our knowledge of how human language developed by only focusing on the last 12,000 years of history and yet overlooking another 200,000 years. Under this scenario and for the first time in history, the Earth became the moon and the moon the Earth.
Today I want to remind people that exactly 40 years ago, mankind set foot on the moon. Quite amazing, isn’t it? I am not sure if this day has already acquired a specific name or not, but I will just call it Moon Day, for its obvious reasons (when we get to Mars we can talk about something else…). For whatever reason, people seem to sometimes forget about the implications and tremendous difficulty that was involved in accomplishing such objective. Despite the fact that a political race might have catapulted humans to reach the moon faster than ever thought at the time, it really fascinates me to think that someone like me (homo sapiens; not necessarily qualified as an astronaut) was looking at the Earth from about a quarter of a million miles away! It is truly an immediate reaction whenever I notice it up there, both day and night.
