On 13th September, 1959, the world was in awe as 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 Aldrin 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 and achievements abound every day.
In fact, just this morning I woke to hear my local radio presenter talk about the amazing achievement of The Wiggles – 30 years of entertaining children. Wow! They went on to discuss the songs as “awesome”, and indicated 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. None of this was considered “awesome, amazing”, incredible, fantastic, or remotely unusual – except by me. I can’t help but feel I get so much more out of every day – because nearly every day I can find something wonder-ful!