Chandra Steele: Visiting the moon — yes, again — could fuel us to continue the tasks we have to confront on Earth.
.” The phrase conjures memories of our first era of space travel — and the idealism and optimism it spread.
It’s hard to imagine in these days of niche and fractured experiences, in which almost everything available to watch is consumed solitarily on a six-inch screen, but in 1969 millions of peopleto watch the broadcast of the first moonwalk. Along with interplanetary exploration, other things that seemed possible by 1969 were civil rights and women’s rights. Yet in recent years, the progress in those movement’s goals has been painfully impeded. The promise the world holds is diminishing to the point where we feel like we can no longer see that far outside ourselves, let alone beyond the oppressive atmosphere.
Watching humans, particularly those who have borne the brunt of these last few difficult years, step down from a publicly funded spacecraft onto a place outside Earth could bolster our hopes for something beyond our terrestrial concerns. Visiting the moon — yes, again — could fuel us to continue the tasks we have to confront on Earth.Alex Dimitrov in 2018 memorialized the potential the world contained when the first moonwalk took place.
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