This past Friday, July 16th, was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the first mission to land men on the moon. Tomorrow, July 20th, will be the thirty-fifth anniversary of that landing. I and Bill Simon, primary authors of the Evoloterra Ceremony, will be on The Space Show tomorrow night at 7 PM Pacific to discuss the anniversary and the ceremony. You can listen live here.

It's not too late to plan to get together with family and friends for dinner, and celebrate our first human visit to another world.

I do get extremely annoyed when, in various "top ten" or "top 100" historical lists, landing on another world is put far below silly current political events. Because of the human's unique technological abilility, this is something no other species on this world has ever been able to do. I have no doubt this will be our "Great Wonder" - the thing that will be well remembered about the U.S. long after everything else is dusty history, thousands of years from now.

On the other hand, I don't feel like celebrating it at the momemt. I understand enough of history to know that it can easily take many decades for initial exploration to turn into something more, but I'm living that history. Mind you, if I get the chance, I fully plan to celebrate in orbit.

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