The United States is sending four astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis II left NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1st, kicking off a 10 day trip before returning to Earth.
If all goes well, the crew will travel more than 685,000 miles. They’ve already surpassed the distance record set during the Apollo era, traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them.
It’s a journey. The ultimate vacation offering a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly.
One of the reasons people appreciate travel is that it offers a different perspective on home. Distance has a way of recalibrating what’s actually important.
Victor Glover, one of the Artemis II crew, said, “I think, as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we’ve got to get through this together.”
It’s a welcome message.
We’ve spent years focusing on what makes us different, growing angrier at neighbors and strangers alike for not sharing our views on politics, religion, and an ever-widening range of other cultural issues. It’s somehow become easier to sort ourselves into camps than to see what we share.
And it’s wrong.
Take a moment now and try to remember, if you were among the living, where you were on July 20th of 1969?
I was a four-year-old boy sitting on his Mama’s lap in the front room of a $200 apartment in Uptown across from Swift School. We watched a 9″ black and white TV as Neil Armstrong, Commander of The Apollo 11 Mission, took his first steps on the moon.
I heard him say, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
My Mother beamed. She couldn’t have been prouder of America’s accomplishment.
She then looked down at me and said, “Do you see what we can accomplish if we put our minds to it? You could do that one day if you wanted. Little C, you can do anything.”
And isn’t that the job of all American Entrepreneurs? Isn’t that why we’re put on this planet?
Isn’t it our job to take one small step for man and a giant leap for mankind? And as we make that journey, shouldn’t we also remember the words of Mark Twain? In *The Innocents Abroad*, Twain wrote…
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
As you make your trip around the moon, take one small step for man and a giant leap for mankind. But do it without spreading prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Make it the ultimate vacation as you make our world a better place.
Let me leave you with this.
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