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Celebrate the first day that human beings stepped foot on another world!
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When you feel discouraged about people’s stupidity and cruelty, look up in the sky at the moon and remember that, ALMOST HALF A CENTURY AGO, we went there! Today marks the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11’s successful voyage of hundreds of thousands of miles to our nearest celestial neighbor.
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We can also celebrate the 1976 landing of the Viking I Lander on Mars. This intrepid unmanned spacecraft traveled hundreds of millions of miles to Earth’s next-door planet, and it was the first to successfully land on Mars. Viking I transmitted many photos of Mars and ran a variety of experiments over a period of over six and a half years!
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We need to get back to exploring the moon! And Mars, too!
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For more Moon Day info, check out last year’s post.