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It was forty-five years ago today ...
By Paul Richard Harris, Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Sunday, Jul 20, 2014

On July 20, 1969 the first humans landed on the moon. Apollo 11 had arrived there the previous day and spent some time looking for a good parking space.

We all know the famous words Neil Armstrong uttered as he became the first of our species to set foot on the lunar surface.

It is more significant, however, to recall the words of astronaut Edgar Mitchell from Apollo 14 ...
- prh, Editor
Axis of Logic
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch."

- Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell