When Neal Armstrong stepped from the Lunar Module after a scary landing on to the dusty surface of our moon he said, “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind.”

After Sputnik 1 passed over North America in October, 1957, the year I finally finished the B.S. degree in engineering, the country was mesmerized seeing this U.S.S.R. spacecraft carrying the dog named Laika who would run out of life support before the mission ended.

While the public was amazed by the Soviet accumbent, or specifically the achievement of both Soviet and German rocket scientist and engineers, the U.S. military were horrified. They did not see a dog riding through space, the first mammal ever to do so, they saw a military threat from space. The rocket that put Sputnik 1 into space could also deliver nuclear weapons or put spy satellites into space.

President Kennedy decided to get a political jump on the Soviets by putting man on the moon, which man was Neal Armstrong who passed away just recently, an astronaut hero.

Living in Idaho, I have a tenancy to call Sputnik 1, Spudnik 1. I think you can understand that.

There must be a point to this story. Neal was not taking “one small step.” It was the culmination of many steps to build a suitable rocket and a spaceship to take those men to the moon and then to land them on the surface fo the moon.

When we achieve something in this world, we are required to take the steps that are required.

We can not assume that something good is going to happen without effort. We can’t assume that we will receive anything of value without working for it, without planning for the outcome.

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John
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