We are a species of travellers, fighting the urges placed in us by our culture and necessity to remain grounded and secure. We are designed to walk upright, to seek what is over the next ridge, the next hill, the next mountain. Our evolution has gifted us with speech and language, so we can tell others what we have seen beyond that next rise.
So it is no surprise that mankind has pushed beyond the hills and mountains into the great endless night, to see and marvel at what is there. We have sent some of our bravest and wisest to the stars on pillars of smoke and flame, to break the barriers of sound and gravity. Our own mortal angels sent onward to meet the gods and their dreams.
But all men must make one last journey, one last horizon from which we cannot return to tell the tale, and share it with all mankind.
Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong. We remember you and all who gave of themselves - in life or in death - in pursuit of seeing what lay just beyond.
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