A year ago, we were getting ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing.
In a thrilling and ridiculous effort, I wrote 50 pieces in 50 days, for @FastCompany leading up to that anniversary, July 20, 1969 — all about what it was like to fly to the Moon.
2/ Going to the Moon was itself a thrilling and ridiculous effort.
When Kennedy said 'to the Moon!' in May 1961, it was an impossible task.
98 months later, Armstrong & Aldrin were bouncing around on the Moon.
3/ The race to the Moon required the best of Americans. And not just the best of American leaders.
It required the best of ordinary Americans.
Because it was ordinary Americans who did the work to get Armstrong & Aldrin to the Moon — inspired by the mission & the work.
4/ The race to the Moon is, in that way, the perfect story alongside the times we're living in now.
In the 1960s, we changed the world. Not just the world of space travel.
Civil rights. Education. Poverty. Feminism. Space travel. Rock and roll.
1969 and 1959 were an era apart.
5/ Over the next 50 days, I'm going to re-fire each of those '50 Days to the Moon' pieces (which are permanently collected on their own pages @FastCompany).
The people who took us to the Moon were bold & imaginative & determined — and also just like us.
#Apollo50
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