OPINION:
Prior to Monday’s lunar lander launch, the last U.S. manned moon mission had been in the early 1970s (“First U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries,” web, Jan. 8).
Earlier lunar astronaut missions had been based on Werner Von Braun’s 1940s V-2 rocket science and technology, which was later supplanted by 1950s and ’60s technology created by American scientists.
Why did it take so long for the United States and humankind to returned to the moon? In the course of these past six decades, has there been some warning to humanity not to go back? Only NASA knows.
A doorway to the universe has been reopened. Beyond it lies the promise of truth, which demands that we question everything we’ve been taught. The future lies before us. We are not alone and never have been.
EARL BEAL
Terre Haute, Indiana
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