Moon boots For Toddlers
Since Witnessing The Moon Landings On television As A Small Child I Have Been Totally Fascinated By Space Exploration And There Is A Whole Lot More Of The Universe Still To Be Discovered
As a youngster I can remember being allowed to stay awake until very late one day with my dad and watch on an old black and white television set as Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong made history by taking those first few steps on its surface. The preamble prior to the moon landing and the regular news reports about the so-called ‘Space Race’ between the Americans and the Russians made a massive impression on me as a small child and in fact I am still intrigued by space and space travel. I make no claim to be very knowledgeable about any of it, but the idea of a universe so vast that we can’t even begin to understand its size is very humbling. Human lifeforms really are the most insignificant animals when considered in the context of everything else that exists.
Mankind has been watching the skies since the dawn of time. Many ancient civilisations came up with rites and traditions dictated by the movements of the stars and planets, and even in this day and age our actions are affected by the sun and the moon much more than we ever understand. Over thousands and thousands of years, humans have surely looked to the skies and wondered what those other planets were like. In fact, there is a whole industry that has been built on the notion of life elsewhere in the universe – aliens, little green men, unidentified flying objects, the entire science fiction genre of films and comics, impossible weapons with light streaming from a Laser eye – would any of these concepts exist if there were no distant planets visible for them to apparently hail from?
With rapid advances in technology in the last century, the desire to travel into space and visit other planets slowly evolved from a dream to a potential reality and the Cold War technology battle between the USA and the USSR led to the relatively fast production of machinery which could travel further than the earth’s atmosphere. The V2 rocket, created by the Germans was the first man-made machine which could travel into space without mechanical problems, and after the end of the Second World War, when both the United States and Russia had gained knowledge of the technology, early development work was aimed at using the knowledge for weapons. But when the Russians succeeded in sending a human into space in 1961, the Americans immediately made the decision to progress with their own schedule for manned space exploration.
The very first American to go into space did so only one month behind Yuri Gagarin and from then onwards, both countries began to focus on the moon as their target for exploration. In the 1960’s unmanned crafts were launched to go to the moon and sent back data about its surface, and the Russians also successfully sent an unmanned craft into orbit around the moon, which produced the earliest images of the other side of the moon.
Not many years later, the USA launched the very first manned spacecraft to fly to the moon. Apollo 8, launched in 1968, orbited the moon and returned safely to earth. It’s amazing to think that it was only the following year when Apollo 11 achieved the feat of satisfactorily landing on the moon in order that two people could actually walk about on its surface. It’s an even more amazing feat when you realise that the complete journey to the moon and back again was achieved with less computer capability than my computer indoors, a games console, Laser eye surgery equipment or a lot of mobile phones!
Apollo 11 is one of the first proper news stories that I can recollect being aware of, mostly I suppose because it received so much attention, but I was totally fascinated by it all and have carried on taking an interest in space related developments to this very day. But it’s a sad sign of the media’s manipulation of what is treated as news, that just two missions later, Apollo 13 was only treated as newsworthy when things went wrong.
Experience gained from the disaster (and eventual triumph) of Apollo 13, together with the cost of the space programme led to a slow cutback to manned space flights, and the last man to stand on the moon did so in 1972. Since the 1970’s, of course, many unmanned craft have been launched into space by a number of nations and the International Space Station is orbiting the earth as I type, and is very visible if you are located in the right place at the right time – a streak of light travelling across the sky as if launched from a Laser eye beam.
As science and technology progress (just contemplate how far we’ve progressed in the past century – from the Ford Model T to the Bugatti Veyron, bi-planes to supersonic jets, fountain pens to computers, monocles to Laser eye surgery – the list goes on and on), humans will carry on sending spacecrafts further and further into the furthest corners of the universe and in the future will probably find many things which are far beyond our imagination at the moment. But I can definitely say that ever since that late night when I watched Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, I will continue to be interested in the latest discoveries about the universe.
Tecnica Kids Moon Boot® Junior (Toddler/Youth) 7692383
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