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This Week's Column
The
Men in the Moon
Can you believe it? Forty
years have passed since man first stepped foot on the moon. It seems like only 32, maybe 33. Do you remember where you were?
That's what everyone is asking these days.
But if I were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin or Michael Collins, the
crew of Apollo 11, I think I would be sick of hearing people ask each other that. At some point I would have to interrupt
and say, "Let me guess: You were someplace with an atmosphere, am I right? And gravity, too. And with some protection
against deadly cosmic gamma rays. Meanwhile, I was hundreds of thousands of miles from earth, eating meals out of a squeeze
tube, relieving myself in a bag, and breathing stale space capsule air. It smelled like a college dorm room up there."
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