“It’s on! It’s on! Get in here, NOW!” called mom. Mom was on the couch staring excitedly at the television wall, with my kids on either side of her. I rushed into the room. “HONNIE, HURRY UP!” I yelled. “Just a minute!” she yelled back. I was now going to know what my father had felt when he had seen the first man walk on the moon. Only now it was Mars!
In walked my wife, she hurriedly walked to the couch and sat beside our son. “And next time don’t yell, dear,” she calmly said. “I didn’t. I just didn’t want you to miss it.” She was right I did yell, but to miss this would be astronomical (no pun intended).
Out stepped the astronaut. The television room went silent. He descended the metallic ladder. “As said by my predecessors before me, that’s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind,” proclaimed the astronaut over the wall sized television. With that he stepped out onto the Martian surface.
“WE’VE DONE IT!” could be heard across the neighborhood. I went closer to the wall were the life-sized man stood on a red surface. You could just make out his face through the helmet; as he cavorted in sheer bliss, on what was thought to be unobtainable 30 years ago. The wall flashed back to Channel 15 News, “That first step on the Mars was just taken by…” I was still astounded… Mars! After all the bickering between countries on who should be the first men to set foot on Mars it had finally happened. What do we do now? More? Of course that’s what makes humans human. We seek power and Mars can bring us only so much. Life brings only a small space in time to discover.
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