On the 13th of September 1959 the world was in awe when news began to circulate that after five failed attempts, the Soviet Union had landed a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. *
We were even more in awe when the United States Apollo 11 mission went literally one step further on July 20 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren actually took that first small step. The Cold War prohibited any friendly collusion of scientific data, yet there would be another 10 moonwalkers before the exploration came to an end on 14th December 1972.
There have been thousands of man-made success stories since then.
Discoveries, achievements abound every day.
In fact just this morning I woke to hear my local radio presenter telling me of the amazing achievement of The Wiggles – 30 years of entertaining children. Wow! They went on to discuss the songs as “awesome”, and indicate yet even more “amazement” at the age of the performers. Would you believe they were “over 40?”
Funnily enough we had no mention of Jasmine Harrison, who at 21 years of age has just rowed solo for 70 days across the 4,800 kilometres of the Atlantic Ocean
And needless to say, they hadn ‘t even given a thought to the very recent landing of NASA’s Perseverance rocket on the Infamous Red Planet – Mars.
Early yesterday morning I went on a ‘VirtualTrip to St. Petersburg, and later in the day went over to London for a “Virtual Bus Trip” to Trafalgar Square.
Later in the evening I did a Zoom meeting with a friend in Iceland – and had time to reply to another friend who had ‘dropped in via an email to say “Hi.”
None of this was considered “awesome, amazing”, incredible, fantastic, or remotely unusual – except by me.
Yes, I’m part of the “older generation”. But you know, I think I’m getting more out of my day, every day, because I just find it all – Wonder-Full.
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