Adventure Is Interesting

While the conquest of the moon was in the offing, although the limelight was on the astronauts manning the space ships, yet the ultimate glory was not theirs alone. It equally belonged to others who had risked their lives in the quest. In an equal measure, it also belonged to men like Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Tsilkovsky, Oberth and many others who had blazed the trail with ideas and experiments which made the feat possible.

And in the ultimate analysis, it was a victory for the whole human race another triumph of the indomitable spirit of man. It was a tremendous uplift for that spirit, bidding it yet "to seek a newer world, to sail beyond the sunset, and the paths of the western stars" with Tennyson's Ulysses.

Man's conquest of the moon was something much more than a reconnaissance of the heavens. It was a journey into man's future into a new age, which may well reshape man's mind and his destiny. As first space-men to approach the moon roamed the heavens, and caught a glimpse of the brown, blue and white sphere on which we are all riding together, men all over the world experienced a strong sense of brotherhood.

They shared feelings of concern for the safety of the brave men, and experienced as one the wonder and warmth of achievement, and a soul- binding and hear-stirring pride in being men belonging to a species in which the spirit of adventure has lived and will live forever.

The name of Neil Armstrong as the first man to set foot on the lunar surface has already passed into history. But the sights of human ambition are already set higher. It is being said that within the predictable future, man will indeed he heading for other planets. He is already conjuring up visions of visiting other stars and exploring the Milky Way. Speculation is rife about much longer journeys in space with the help of a photon rocket flying at the speed of light and bringing time to a standstill.

All this today boggles the imagination but as has