Good evening, readers. Today marks fifty years since the moon landing that happened on July 20, 1969. I thought that I would post a photograph that I took with my simple point-and-shoot camera last summer when the moon was a reddish hue and seemed larger in the sky. I was impressed because I can make out some of the craters and the texture on the surface of the moon. The project to put a man on the moon and the engineer the whole process took years to do.
I'm not sure if people will ever explore space further due to the challenges this feat poses and the high costs involved to do it. Regardless of this, I think much more effort should be put on protecting the environment and counter-acting the damage that has currently been done to the Earth. I would like to see big corporations and the government doing more about this. I do try to limit my energy consumption and be frugal about wastage/use of resources, and I am planning to get solar panels in the next few months.
The moon landing did bring about much creativity in the 1960s. Space-inspired science fiction was dreamt about in the 1950s, and it took off further in the 1960s. Several songs, books, films, and television programmes were inspired by space and the moon landing. I think the creativity that came out of it makes it worthwhile.
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