Forty years ago today, humankind slipped the surly bonds of Earth and traveled in a sealed capsule to a place 200,000 miles from home.  That place is the Moon, Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor who we first explored in 1969 thanks to the brave astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins, who formed the crew of Apollo 11.  You can track the entire Apollo 11 mission in real time at We Choose The Moon, which features Twitter-style updates from mission control and Apollo 11, videos, and even (squee!) real audio from the shuttle!

I’m a huge space nerd.  I know there are conspiracy theorists who believe otherwise, but I think we made it to the moon and in turn, space travelers visit us.  Yes, I believe in aliens.  More importantly, I believe that not only should we be heading back to space, we need to be heading to Mars.

The Apollo missions gave us so much in the way of technology that we depend on today, from transistors to Tang, but since we stopped really reaching for new heights the rate of innovation has seemed to slow down despite NASA’s 1650 patents, inventions, and spin-offs.  I think it’s time we resume striving for something greater than shooting a rocket into orbit and bringing it back down.

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